### [2025-11-11](/feed/2025/11/11/index.md)

##### Electricity sector in the Dominican Republic
# The Dominican Republic experiences a rare countrywide blackout, which officials blame on a failure in the power transmission grid. 




### Sources:

1. [AP](https://apnews.com/article/dominican-republic-blackout-power-outage-e0ea4742ae57fe4b13896a3c82284b41)

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