Citizen participation (PC) expressed his worry before the persistent crisis of Electric sector National, which continues to affect the population and the economy.
Through a press release, the organization He denounced that from August to date, the country has suffered blackouts up to 12 hours a day, which, in his opinion, has converted the summer “In hell for families and popular economy,” generating large damage and generalized protests.
The organization pointed out that, Despite investments exceeding 2,000 million Of pesos in substations and official promises to solve the problem before the end of 2025, reality reflects a persistent structural deterioration.
Citing official data from the Ministry of Energy and Mines, Citizen participation He stressed that between January and August 2025, the Government allocated more than 62,000 million pesos to the electricity subsidy, a figure that represents around 60 % of the state subsidies executed in this period. “This proportion exceeds investments in strategic sectors such as health and social programs. Despite this mass fiscal effort, Energy losses They increased from 36.9 % in 2024 to 37.6 % in 2025. This means that for every 100 pesos invested, about 38 pesos are lost due to fraud, illegal connections and technical deficiencies, “says the entity.
Crisis of Electric sector
The civic organization said that the Electric sector Dominican goes through one Structural crisis that goes beyond the technical and financial. According to data cited by the entity, as of September 2024, the Ministry of Energy and Mines reported more than 800,000 illegal connections to the interconnected national electrical system (SENI), equivalent to 25 % of the formal customers of the system.
Although by August 2025 this amount was reduced to 650,000 illegal connections, PC considers that the number remains alarming and constitutes one of the main causes of losses in it system electric national.
“Public opinion shuds knowledge in detail of how they have been installed Mafias of public officialsrelatives of politicians and companies created for such purposes, who have stolen billions of pesos and dollars and have submitted to this country to the constant suffering of long blackouts and the Dominican economy to large losses for this concept, “said the organization.
Citizen participation warned that the Cyclic persistence of electrical crisis In the country, among other factors, the immensity of fraud in electricity consumption is due, both by population sectors and powerful groups, the inability to invoice what is served and serious failures in internal control, governance and transparency systems of electricity distributors (EDES).
The organization pointed out that these irregularities are clearly reflected in The figures Officers, They show that between January and May 2025, EDES reported losses of 41.7 % of the electricity supply.
In that sense, the organization expressed concern about Decree 517-25, which declares in emergency key aspects of the Electric sectorand warned that its application must be subject to “Strict institutional controls”.
- “National experience shows that states of exception and shopping of urgency, if they are not accompanied by independent transparency and control, they have historically been fertile land for the waste and the corruption”, The entity warned.
They urged the government and control agencies to ensure that such provision does not become a new channel of privileges improper and overvaluations, to the detriment of citizenship.
