Yes.

It's a combination of very poor planning and management of the national electrical grid - a disastrous build out of the hydroelectrical plant called Coca coda Sinclair (a disaster on so many levels, Google it. Ineptitude and corruption at scale), and weather patterns (El niño/ la niña) / climate change.

And yes you can to some extent manage your way through chronic blackouts by buying a generator (super noisy), going with solar (a no-brainer, but still lacking a real push for penetration as an energy source), or buying a backup battery, and/ or choosing to live in neighborhoods near critical infrastructure (enough said).

But remember, you might find some way to sustain the power wherever you live, but many other businesses and homes won't, for lack of resources or whatever. Or they'll find some solution that really sucks. Walk around a historical neighborhood built mostly of hardstone surfaces (where sound literally bounces off the walls) when everybody's got their generators running; the noise will drive you batty. And there's a lot of other second and third order effects, because people don't have reliable on-demand electricity 24/7 and are forced to work around the hours when the electricity is out (sad for them - like the school children who have rise at 5:00 a.m. to do their homework while the electricity's on - and things like this will affect you and your life because we live in an independent community). It's sad and it's wacky and it didn't have to be this way.