A schedule of the blackouts is posted on www.grupoice.com. Viewers can click on the blue banner on the right side of the page reading “ Planes de cortes electricos ” to bring up the schedules, which are subject to change.


The country's energy crisis became evident April 19 when a massive blackout left most of the country in the dark for hours. After smaller outages throughout last week, the Executive Branch declared the energy crisis a state of emergency (TT, April 27).

ICE president Pedro Pablo Quiros has said the outages will continue until the rainy season begins, explaining that a lack of water to power the country's hydroelectric plants, as well as damaged thermal plants, are among causes of the blackout.