From Today's DR1 News:
Anybody know anything about these Tecsol people? Who's their main alternative(s) in the DR market? Who are the trustworthy providers in the DR market? How do we know who to trust? Is there any type of certification system, or standard the consumer or contractor should be looking for?
Tom F, any suggestions?
8. Solar fiasco
The Chamber of Accounts has ordered the Ministry of Industry and Commerce to rescind the two contracts with a solar energy company that had been entrusted with providing energy to 12,000 rural dwellings. The government agency sent an audit to the Attorney General's office about the contracts signed by former minister Sonia Guzman de Hernandez, under the Mejia government, and by Francisco Javier Garcia, current minister of Industry and Commerce.
The review shows that Tecnicas Energeticas Solares (Tecsol) underwrote a first contract for the installation of solar panels in 2,000 dwellings in 14 provinces on 29 December 2003, but only delivered 1,249. The Chamber of Accounts determined that the company received RD$13,685,046.28.
Despite not fulfilling the agreement, the company was awarded a new contract for RD$368,401,532 under the new government. Industry and Commerce Minister Francisco Javier Garcia entrusted the company to provide 10,000 dwellings with energy. The company has already received RD$45 million as part of this second contract.
In a report in Diario Libre, Jose Antonio Rodriguez Jimenez, president of Tecsol, says that the authorities were satisfied with the work done during the first contract.
Anybody know anything about these Tecsol people? Who's their main alternative(s) in the DR market? Who are the trustworthy providers in the DR market? How do we know who to trust? Is there any type of certification system, or standard the consumer or contractor should be looking for?
Tom F, any suggestions?