DR1 Daily News - Dominican Republic

President Luis Abinader attended the inaugural of the largest solar power plant in the Caribbean. The Empresa Generadora de Electricidad Haina (EgeHaina), a public-private venture, invested US$100 million to build the new Girasol Solar Park. The plant has installed capacity for 120 megawatts and is estimated to produce 240,000 megawatt hours (MWh) per year, enough to supply the electricity consumption of more than 100,000 homes

The new clean energy plant is located in the municipality of Yaguate, San Cristóbal province, and is EGE Haina’s sixth renewable energy plant and the largest in the Caribbean.

268,200 solar panels were installed on a surface of 220 hectares. One hectare is equal to 10,000 square meters (m2).

In his remarks, President Abinader highlighted the contribution that this type of investment makes to the sustainable development of the country’s economy...