Of the Dominican electric grid?s 49 power plants it is reported that they have the ability to produce about 3,225 megawatts of power. My research has come up with the following generating plants and the capability of power generation where noted. If there is no noted capability it is because I couldn?t find that information. The largest capability plants are listed first.
Monte Rio:
Azua:
Itabo I: 90 megawatts
Cogentrix I:
Cogentrix II:
Generadora Haina: (Made up of 11 power plants.)
Sultana del Este: 150 megawatts
Itabo II: 124 megawatts
Falcondo I: 62 megawatts
Falcondo II: 62 megawatts
Falcondo III: 62 megawatts
Smith-Enron, in Puerto Plata:
Pimentel: 45 megawatts
Metaldom: 31 megawatts
Cogentrix III:
Palamara La Vega: 102 megawatts
Estrella Marina: 58 megawatts
Estrella del Norte: 32 megawatts
Puerto Plata Electrical Company Unit I: 24 megawatts
Puerto Plata Electrical Company Unit II: 37 megawatts
AES-Andr?s: 229 megawatts
Haina I: 45 megawatts
Haina II: 45 megawatts
Haina IV: 63 megawatts
Barahona Coal:
Barahona Turbog?s:
San Pedro Steam: 33 megawatts
San Pedro Turbog?s:
Higuamo I: 34 megawatts
Higuamo II: 34 megawatts
Itabo III:
Itabo Turbog?s I: 34 megawatts
Itabo Turbog?s II: 34 megawatts
Itabo Turbog?s III: 34 megawatts
Maxon company has 10 plants which haven?t operated in a long time: 27 megawatts
Articles I?ve found as they relate to electricity in this country prior to 1989 and other sources. Here is a proposed 100 megawatts from wind. Here is an interesting article about building small sustainable hydro plants. Now here is a very interesting pdf report that starts on page 33. In it it states that the DR has the potential to generate an additional 500 megawatts from hydroelectric plants and up to 30,000 megawatts from wind.
It is stated that there are 35 hydroelectric plants in the DR that together generate 400 megawatts
My research has come up with the following plants;
Jimenoa hydroelectric plant ? 7 megawatts ? presently non-functional due to clogged intake.
These three plants were in the news back in 2005 as proposed construction. I have no idea as to what their present circumstances are.
hidroel?ctrico Palomino -??- Started in Mar 2005? ? 98 megawatts
Pinalito in Constanza ? 50 megawatts
de las Placetas 80 megawatts
Earlier Uni?n Fenosa was discussed and their tie-in to the Dominican electrical system. I found that Uni?n Fenosa entered Nicaragua in 1987-1988 to do a kind of consultancy for ENEL on its information systems and the kind of software needed to modernize them. After selling and installing new systems, Uni?n Fenosa left Nicaragua with all the information it needed about their system. In 1998, National Assembly legislators of all political stripes, including both Liberals and Sandinistas, voted to reform the Energy Law in such a way as to favor the privatization of distribution. The law was supposedly designed with this in mind. In 2000, the service was put up for public tender and the only company to bid was Uni?n Fenosa. The process should therefore have been declared null and void, but instead Uni?n Fenosa was declared the winner. The illusion was created that there were really two companies, Disnorte and Dissur, so it wouldn?t appear to be a monopoly. ENEL had previously established the two companies for supposedly this reason, and Uni?n Fenosa subsequently ?bought? both of them.
The state ?sold? the most profitable part of the national energy sector to Uni?n Fenosa for just $115 million, including the whole electricity grid and all of its assets. The operation was carried out by President Enrique Bola?os, who was both president of ENEL and vice president in the Alem?n government at the time. Bola?os acted as Uni?n Fenosa?s sponsor ever since the company entered Nicaragua. In fact, one of his first missions on becoming President was to travel to Spain to negotiate with the company. He told them that in just a few months he would ?support? them by increasing electricity prices, which he indeed authorized this after six months. The Network made a legal appeal, because establishing electricity prices is the legal responsibility of ENEL, not the President. They spent nine months in a trial and in the end they won. So what did Bola?os do? He ordered his then finance minister and presidential aspirant, Eduardo Montealegre, to transfer $12 million of public resources to Uni?n Fenosa as a subsidy, without National Assembly authorization. But the Assembly didn?t challenge him, and the transfer went through. This money was given to Uni?n Fenosa as part of the proposed sale of Hidrogesa, behind which was the group headed by Ernesto Fern?ndez Hollman, partner of La Prensa, Banco Uno and Coastal Power, and very close to Bola?os. So many groups are related to the energy sector with their own vested interests that you never know what to expect next.
Any of this sound familiar in any way to anything you have seen or read????
Anyway, I hope some of you have found this informative and or helpful.
Rick
Monte Rio:
Azua:
Itabo I: 90 megawatts
Cogentrix I:
Cogentrix II:
Generadora Haina: (Made up of 11 power plants.)
Sultana del Este: 150 megawatts
Itabo II: 124 megawatts
Falcondo I: 62 megawatts
Falcondo II: 62 megawatts
Falcondo III: 62 megawatts
Smith-Enron, in Puerto Plata:
Pimentel: 45 megawatts
Metaldom: 31 megawatts
Cogentrix III:
Palamara La Vega: 102 megawatts
Estrella Marina: 58 megawatts
Estrella del Norte: 32 megawatts
Puerto Plata Electrical Company Unit I: 24 megawatts
Puerto Plata Electrical Company Unit II: 37 megawatts
AES-Andr?s: 229 megawatts
Haina I: 45 megawatts
Haina II: 45 megawatts
Haina IV: 63 megawatts
Barahona Coal:
Barahona Turbog?s:
San Pedro Steam: 33 megawatts
San Pedro Turbog?s:
Higuamo I: 34 megawatts
Higuamo II: 34 megawatts
Itabo III:
Itabo Turbog?s I: 34 megawatts
Itabo Turbog?s II: 34 megawatts
Itabo Turbog?s III: 34 megawatts
Maxon company has 10 plants which haven?t operated in a long time: 27 megawatts
Articles I?ve found as they relate to electricity in this country prior to 1989 and other sources. Here is a proposed 100 megawatts from wind. Here is an interesting article about building small sustainable hydro plants. Now here is a very interesting pdf report that starts on page 33. In it it states that the DR has the potential to generate an additional 500 megawatts from hydroelectric plants and up to 30,000 megawatts from wind.
It is stated that there are 35 hydroelectric plants in the DR that together generate 400 megawatts
My research has come up with the following plants;
Jimenoa hydroelectric plant ? 7 megawatts ? presently non-functional due to clogged intake.
These three plants were in the news back in 2005 as proposed construction. I have no idea as to what their present circumstances are.
hidroel?ctrico Palomino -??- Started in Mar 2005? ? 98 megawatts
Pinalito in Constanza ? 50 megawatts
de las Placetas 80 megawatts
Earlier Uni?n Fenosa was discussed and their tie-in to the Dominican electrical system. I found that Uni?n Fenosa entered Nicaragua in 1987-1988 to do a kind of consultancy for ENEL on its information systems and the kind of software needed to modernize them. After selling and installing new systems, Uni?n Fenosa left Nicaragua with all the information it needed about their system. In 1998, National Assembly legislators of all political stripes, including both Liberals and Sandinistas, voted to reform the Energy Law in such a way as to favor the privatization of distribution. The law was supposedly designed with this in mind. In 2000, the service was put up for public tender and the only company to bid was Uni?n Fenosa. The process should therefore have been declared null and void, but instead Uni?n Fenosa was declared the winner. The illusion was created that there were really two companies, Disnorte and Dissur, so it wouldn?t appear to be a monopoly. ENEL had previously established the two companies for supposedly this reason, and Uni?n Fenosa subsequently ?bought? both of them.
The state ?sold? the most profitable part of the national energy sector to Uni?n Fenosa for just $115 million, including the whole electricity grid and all of its assets. The operation was carried out by President Enrique Bola?os, who was both president of ENEL and vice president in the Alem?n government at the time. Bola?os acted as Uni?n Fenosa?s sponsor ever since the company entered Nicaragua. In fact, one of his first missions on becoming President was to travel to Spain to negotiate with the company. He told them that in just a few months he would ?support? them by increasing electricity prices, which he indeed authorized this after six months. The Network made a legal appeal, because establishing electricity prices is the legal responsibility of ENEL, not the President. They spent nine months in a trial and in the end they won. So what did Bola?os do? He ordered his then finance minister and presidential aspirant, Eduardo Montealegre, to transfer $12 million of public resources to Uni?n Fenosa as a subsidy, without National Assembly authorization. But the Assembly didn?t challenge him, and the transfer went through. This money was given to Uni?n Fenosa as part of the proposed sale of Hidrogesa, behind which was the group headed by Ernesto Fern?ndez Hollman, partner of La Prensa, Banco Uno and Coastal Power, and very close to Bola?os. So many groups are related to the energy sector with their own vested interests that you never know what to expect next.
Any of this sound familiar in any way to anything you have seen or read????
Anyway, I hope some of you have found this informative and or helpful.
Rick