The Seaboard Corporation is proposing to install a 100-megawatt power plant in the Cibao region. The company would sell power directly to the Santiago Free Zone Corporation, which demands approximately 30 megawatts. In the interim, the plan is to send Samana a power barge, presently docked in Santo Domingo, to supply energy to the North Coast and Cibao areas. Negotiations are being conducted by Felix Garcia for Santiago businesspeople and Armando Rodriguez for Seaboard, as printed in the Listin Diario.
The newspaper also reported that the power situation in the Cibao was critical yesterday. Smith Enron’s 180-megawatt capacity was out of service, as were the two 65-megawatt units of CEPP and EGE’s Puerto Plata I and II, which supply another 67 megawatts combined.