In the coastal municipality of Sosúa, Puerto Plata, widespread frustration has boiled over among local residents after widespread, extended power cuts left thousands without electricity for up to four hours on Monday, right in the middle of a record heat wave gripping the northern Dominican region. Neighborhoods spanning from the entrance of Maranatha down to the lower sections of the municipality, including the densely populated communities of Sosúa Abajo and Maranatha itself, bore the brunt of the unannounced service disruption. With temperatures hovering well above 30 degrees Celsius, the outage hit particularly hard for residents already struggling with stifling indoor conditions, with many taking to social media to voice their anger and demand urgent intervention from the national power distributor EDENORTE. One affected resident, speaking on condition of anonymity, summed up the widespread frustration: “We’ve gone four full hours without power, and the distributor has not even acknowledged the issue, let alone fixed it. All we want is to be able to rest comfortably, not swelter through this oppressive heat.” The outages come as part of a growing pattern of complaints across the region over inconsistent electricity reliability, with consumers increasingly pushing for both more stable service delivery and clearer, faster communication from EDENORTE when outages do occur. Critics point out that the distributor frequently fails to alert local communities of planned outages, leaving residents unprepared to cope with extended blackouts during hot weather. Notably, EDENORTE has already published its official planned maintenance schedule for the period between June 27 and July 3, 2026, which lists areas targeted for scheduled power cuts. As of Tuesday morning, the company had not issued any public confirmation linking the Monday Sosúa outages to either its planned maintenance work or an unexpected equipment failure. Local news outlet InfoENN has confirmed it has reached out to EDENORTE leadership to request an official statement addressing the complaints and clarify the root cause of the disruption, and will publish an update as soon as a response is received.