Hundreds of trees in Santo Domingo are being pruned and trimmed by the Corporación Dominicana de Electricidad (CDE) in order to prevent malfunctioning in the state-owned electricity company’s distribution network. The CDE’s public relations department claims that 80% of such problems which cause interruptions to the electricity service are caused by contact between branches and cables. In addition to the trimming of the trees, the CDE is replacing components in several of its transformers in various parts of the capital in order to reduce the breakdowns in the supply.
The CDE announced that with the return of the ITABO I power station to the distribution network, the company is generating over 1,000,000 kilowatts per day which, in turn, has continued to reduce the frequency and length of power cuts in Santo Domingo and the interior of the country.
The general administrator of the CDE, Amilcar Romero, returned to work last week after being out of his office for three weeks due to an unidentified illness.