{"id":277038,"date":"2019-05-25T03:09:27","date_gmt":"2019-05-25T07:09:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CBMiQWh0dHBzOi8vd3d3LnRoZXJlcG9ydGVyZXRoaW9waWEuY29tL2FydGljbGUvbGlnaHRzLW91dC1hZnRlcnNob2Nr0gEA?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-23T11:54:41","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T15:54:41","slug":"the-reporter-analyzed-the-aftershock-of-ethiopias-latest-power-rationing-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/277038","title":{"rendered":"The Reporter analyzed the aftershock of Ethiopia\u2019s latest power-rationing round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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.<\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-277392\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Koysha-Hydroelectric-project-workers-voice-grievances.jpg?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"The Reporter analyzed the aftershock of Ethiopia\u2019s latest power-rationing round\" \/>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Power rationing was a recurring story of Abiy Ahmed\u2019s early years, when rain shortfalls and grid limits collided with industrial-park demand.<\/p>\n<p>Kept as energy archive, the lights-out aftershock essay dates how rationing felt on the ground in May 2019.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thereporterethiopia.com\/article\/lights-out-aftershock\">The Reporter Ethiopia<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lights out! the aftershock&nbsp;&nbsp;The Reporter EthiopiaIt has been a week now since the government of Ethiopia reintroduced the latest round of power rationing measures that rotates every two shifts during the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":277392,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-277038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Koysha-Hydroelectric-project-workers-voice-grievances.jpg?fit=475%2C266&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1a4m","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277038"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":754913,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277038\/revisions\/754913"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}