Nighttime blackouts continue to generate protests and irritation despite stable generation

Despite the full operation of all the country’s power plants, the population continues to receive long periods of blackouts, especially at night.

These power outages triggered tire burning as a form of protest yesterday in Puerto Plata, San Francisco de Macorís, Constanza, among other locations.

The population’s discontent has been felt on social media, where people are vehemently complaining about the long blackouts, currently becoming the main citizen complaint against the authorities.

At the time of this writing, the National Interconnected Energy System is serving 3,407 MW and the scheduled amount is 3,261 MW.

As of today, the Punta Catalina Electric Generation Company is serving 19.3% of what is generated by the system, followed by EGE HAINA responsible for 10.5% of the generation, Dominican Power Partners, 7.8%, AES Andrés 7.5%, and CESPM 7.5%

Following are EGEITABO with 7.2% and Seaboard with 6.6%.

It is recalled that the effects of storm ERIN caused a significant accumulation of sargassum that reduced the cooling level of the Punta Catalina units and forced one of them to be temporarily taken out of operation. It was later quickly incorporated into the system.