SANTO DOMINGO (Reuters) -Officials in the Dominican Republic on Tuesday said they had restored some of the country’s electricity supply after a nationwide outage earlier in the day.

The national power system was being gradually restored following a failure at 1:23 p.m. (1723 GMT) at the San Pedro I substation, which triggered the blackout, the state power company said in a statement, citing Energy and Mines Minister Joel Santos Echavarria.

“We currently have over 527 megawatts generating power, representing more than 15% of the national demand, and this number will continue to increase as the stabilization process progresses,” Echavarria said during a press conference held at the Energy Control Center.

Power has already been restored in parts of Santiago, San Cristobal, Santo Domingo No

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