According to the general administrator of the Corporación Dominicana de Electricidad (CDE), Amilcar Romero, the state-owned electricity company has been generating 50,000 kilowatts more than the national demand. With the inclusion of the power stations Los Mina III and Los Mina IV in the grid, the CDE’s output has reached 1,100,000 kilowatts per day against a demand of 1,050,000. Mr. Romero said that the power cuts in Santo Domingo and the interior, which have reduced in length and frequency in recent weeks, are not due to an electricity shortage but to flaws in some of the cables in the CDE’s distribution network.
17-23 May 1996