Secretary of the Presidency Danilo Medina said that the government is working on a plan so that the nation may have a strategic energy reserve in order to reduce dependency on private generation plants. Several of these power plants, that were installed with contracts favorable to persons of influence during the past Balaguer administration, including the Smith-Enron and the AES Dominican Power, have continuously suffered from problems that have impeded them from offering a stable supply of power to the national energy grid. Danilo Medina said that the contracts by which those companies were installed should be revised.
