In May 2019 The Reporter published an analysis saying the government had again reintroduced rotating power rationing, with cuts shifting across two daily shifts and hitting homes and factories after about a week of the new schedule.
The piece treated blackouts as more than inconvenience: lost factory hours, spoiled cold storage, and public anger that sat beside big hydropower promises and private IPP pitches.
Power rationing was a recurring story of Abiy Ahmed’s early years, when rain shortfalls and grid limits collided with industrial-park demand.
Kept as energy archive, the lights-out aftershock essay dates how rationing felt on the ground in May 2019.
Sources: The Reporter Ethiopia