It seems with these projects both in Las Terrenas and Sosua that it's people in the capital making the decisions. They just know these places from going there on weekend trips. I don't know exactly how it works though. The political decision process.
I have to side with Luz y Fuerza on this one, when Orssini used to produce and distribute there was power 90 percent of the time in LT, when the Gov. forced him into a distribute only situation is when the outages started and LT fell in line with the rest of the country in outages, it is extremely difficult to distribute power when there isn't any. It was very expensive back in the day and everybody used to bitch about it but the outages were much less apparent than as today with the Government supplying the power, the Gov doesn't care, Orssini did.
They didn't just come in and make decisions. David Collado has always worked with locals to come up with plans that are accepted and implemented.
There was a period when Luz y Fuerza LT produced ALL the power for Las Terrenas, parts of El Limon and I believe Las Galeras, Sr. Orssini had two large generators producing the power, he had a goldmine and was the sole proprietor, the Government wanted a piece of that pie. He fought them off for quite a few years but eventually lost out and now just distributes the power in Las Terrenas. The power source today is somewhere west of the Samana peninsula towards POP and is the same as Nagua and large swaths of the North Coast. There is a substation (?) in Sanchez that now sends power over the lomas to LT. There were plenty of times in the past that Sanchez and Santa Barbara de Samana would be in the dark but LT had luz thanks to Orssini & Luz y Fuerza Las Terrenas. With the large scale, rabid out of control growth in the past 5 years would he (Orssini) have been able to keep up with the demand?, I believe so, knowing him personally I believe he would have invested heavily to keep the lights on. Meanwhile, today, the residents and visitors of LT must rely on Government supplied power and we all know what that's like, sporadic and unreliable, especially in touristic hotspots in high season and during long ferria weekends. Returning to the OP, it will certainly be nice for Las Terrenas to finally have their Pueblo de Pecadores back up and running, it was/is a big part of the village.
I thought the concrete structures on Sosua were stalled at the 50% or less point, no? Years to go on them.
