Paramaribo, November 11 – Suriname’s state-owned public utility Energiebedrijven Suriname (EBS) has formally notified residential and commercial customers across multiple regions of upcoming scheduled rolling power outages spanning two separate multi-day windows in November 2026, a mandatory measure to accommodate critical upgrade and maintenance work at the Afobaka power generation complex. The utility confirmed that the planned work will temporarily reduce the collective total generating capacity of the national power plant fleet, leaving insufficient available output to meet peak nationwide electricity demand at certain intervals during the work periods. The two scheduled maintenance and load-shedding windows will run consecutively from Friday, November 13 through Monday, November 16, and Friday, November 20 through Monday, November 23, 2026. During these four-day blocks, targeted rolling outages of no more than three consecutive hours will be implemented across different service zones exclusively during midday and evening peak demand hours, to avoid simultaneous full blackouts across the entire national grid. EBS leadership acknowledged that the planned interruptions will likely create significant inconvenience for households, small businesses, healthcare facilities and commercial operations, and the company has committed to deploying all available technical teams to complete the Afobaka works as quickly and efficiently as possible to minimize broader societal disruption. All affected customers can verify the exact outage schedule for their residential or workplace zone in real time by visiting the official dedicated EBS load-shedding portal at loadshedding.ebs.sr on the relevant operational days.