{"id":225001,"date":"2025-11-12T20:33:35","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T02:33:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/dominican-republic-hit-with-widespread-power-outage"},"modified":"2025-11-12T20:33:35","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T02:33:35","slug":"dominican-republic-hit-with-widespread-power-outage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/dominican-republic-hit-with-widespread-power-outage","title":{"rendered":"Dominican Republic hit with widespread power outage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/dominican-republic-hit-with-widespread-power-outage.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A rare blackout hit the entire Dominican Republic on Tuesday, snarling traffic and paralyzing businesses in the country of nearly 11 million people.<\/p>\n<p>Officials blamed a failure in the grid\u2019s transmission system, although it wasn\u2019t immediately clear what caused it.<\/p>\n<p>Generation units in San Pedro de Macor\u00eds and the Quisqueya Power Plant shut down, triggering a cascade of failures at other transmission and generation plants, according to the Dominican Electricity Transmission Company, a decentralized state agency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A rare blackout hit the entire Dominican Republic on Tuesday, snarling traffic and paralyzing businesses in the country of nearly 11 million people. Officials blamed a failure in the grid\u2019s transmission system, although it wasn\u2019t immediately clear what caused it. Generation units in San Pedro de Macor\u00eds and the Quisqueya Power Plant shut down, triggering [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,1497],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225001\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}