Engineers Jaime Felipe in an interview with Hoy, expresses his concern that Dominicans are not making efforts to find alternate power sources other than costly imported fuel. ?We need to start disconnecting ourselves from the production of power that uses petroleum, and encourage the generation of power using alternate sources such as water, wind, sugar cane bagasse, sea waves, what best adapts to the country and is neither complicated, nor costly,? Felipe states. In his opinion, there are 30 viable projects listed by the National Institute of Hydraulic Resources (INDRHI) that could be built to generate power and save the state millions in fuel purchases.
Felipe also spoke of the importance of developing solar and eolic (wind) energy projects, as well as harnessing the energy released by sea waves. Also mentioned in the interview is energy generated from garbage and solid wastes.