{"id":652511,"date":"2025-11-13T11:16:37","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T05:46:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=652511"},"modified":"2025-11-13T11:16:37","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T05:46:37","slug":"massive-blackout-hits-the-dominican-republic-after-power-plant-failures-crews-scramble-to-restore-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/massive-blackout-hits-the-dominican-republic-after-power-plant-failures-crews-scramble-to-restore-power\/","title":{"rendered":"Massive blackout hits the Dominican Republic after power plant failures; crews scramble to restore power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A massive power outage plunged the entire Dominican Republic into darkness on Tuesday, disrupting traffic and halting businesses across the nation of nearly 11 million. Officials said the blackout stemmed from a failure in the transmission system, though the exact cause remains unclear.<\/p>\n<p>Generation units at San Pedro de Macor\u00eds and the Quisqueya Power Plant shut down, setting off a chain reaction of failures across other transmission and generation facilities, the Dominican Electricity Transmission Company said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A massive power outage plunged the entire Dominican Republic into darkness on Tuesday, disrupting traffic and halting businesses across the nation of nearly 11 million. Officials said the blackout stemmed from a failure in the transmission system, though the exact cause remains unclear. Generation units at San Pedro de Macor\u00eds and the Quisqueya Power Plant shut down, setting off a chain reaction of failures across other transmission and generation facilities, the Dominican Electricity Transmission Company said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[139,130,237],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-652511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-mint","category-newspapers","category-power-live-mint"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=652511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652511\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}