EDENORTE!! The Evil Empire??

gringosabroso

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I live in Puerto Plata. There is a large aquarium in Cofresi - Ocean World - which has its own power plant - for painfully obvious reasons. The plant has excess capacity; the entire immediate neighborhood wants to tie in, abandoning ENEDORTE - for the same reasons. EDENORTE claims it is illegal? No willing seller & no willing buyer of electric power can enter into private contracts to buy & sell electric power! Why? Other potential, willing, foreign purchasers have told me the same thing. Shouldn't the national government make these decisions? How can a bankrupt, incompetent, & corrupt co. - EDENORTE - prevent a consumer from finding & buying power anywhere she chooses? Illogical? Unfair? Counter productive? Absurd? In the national interest? Is the policy of EDENORTE legally, morally, or socially defensible. Where is the IMF? Responses from EDENORTE on this thread most welcome.
 
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gringosabroso said:
Where is the IMF?
:eek: Help! IMF! Help! :rolleyes:

Hot flash: Nobody can sell unregulated private power in the face of a public utility in the US, Canada or wherever you're from either.
 

Chirimoya

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How are the private companies in Punta Cana and Las Terrenas (which services much of the Samana peninsula) different from this proposal?

IIRC one of the larger hotels in Las Galeras which had its own generator used to sell its surplus power to some of the village before the Las Terrenas company extended its service to LG. Is this a precedent or are the circumstances different in this case?
 

Dolores1

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Lots of other cases where permits were granted: Casa de Campo and Central Romana in La Romana, Bayahibe/Dominicus hotels in La Altagracia, even the Hotel Jaragua and Multicentro La Sirena in Santo Domingo have installed their own power generators and disconnected from the AES, Edenorte or Edesur grids.

The power distributors hate this and want them all in their basket where they can suck them dry as they do all of us paying customers that due to the corruption that has imbued the system for too many years have to pay some of the highest power rates in the world for the worst service.

Otherwise, it is today difficult to disconnect from the national grid, and much more difficult to sell power to a third party.
 
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Chirimoya said:
How are the private companies in Punta Cana and Las Terrenas (which services much of the Samana peninsula) different from this proposal?

IIRC one of the larger hotels in Las Galeras which had its own generator used to sell its surplus power to some of the village before the Las Terrenas company extended its service to LG. Is this a precedent or are the circumstances different in this case?
Chiri,
The situation in the East is different because it is not part of the AES/Edenorte/Edensul lawful monopolies. Where there is a lawful monopoly (obviously in this case, the word "lawful" sounds kind of silly), the sale of electricity by anyone other than the lawful monopoly is illegal.

The basis for this is that public utilities could not recover their investments into wiring and maintaining service for everyone if other providers were able to selectively come in and undercut them in choice areas or for choice clients.

I agree that, in the DR, the whole thing is a sham. But, nonetheless, the foundation for it is correct and the law giving the Edens monopoly power is one of the few in the country regularly enforced.

And I can't wait to see the new movie, "Team IMF, World Police".
 
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DES

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Would it be possible to sell excess capacity from private generators back to Edenorte ( this is done here in the US)? This protects Edenorte's investment while relieving a tiny portion of the strain on the generating shortfall, although it wouldn't directly benefit the original poster.
 

Dolores1

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DES said:
Would it be possible to sell excess capacity from private generators back to Edenorte ( this is done here in the US)? This protects Edenorte's investment while relieving a tiny portion of the strain on the generating shortfall, although it wouldn't directly benefit the original poster.

Yes, this is a practice that has been in effect. For instance, Metaldom has sold to Edesur, and Falconbridge would sell to Edenorte.
 

gringosabroso

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Private Generators sell power to EDENORTE???

Is there any hope whatsoever that any private generator in this position in this country would ever get paid by Edenorte?? When? 60 days? 90 days? 6 months? 2 years? I don't think many rational private businesses would place themselves in this position. Legal remedies? You think in jest.