Benjamín Villalobos, director of operations of AES Dominicana, the leading local power supplier, explained that the highly diversified energy generation matrix of the Dominican Republic reduces the vulnerability of the country’s electricity system to natural disasters. “The diversified energy matrix of the Dominican Republic is an advantage given that the country does not depend on a single source of fuel, but rather has units that operate in dual manner and different ports for the receiving of fuel both in liquid and gas form,” he highlighted. He spoke during a talk on “Resilience of the Dominican electricity system to catastrophes caused by natural phenomenon” on Tuesday, 3 July 2018, sponsored by the Dominican Association of Electricity Industry.
Villalobos highlighted the installation of an energy storage system for AES Andres and DPP through a battery system maintained stability of the frequency and a distributed deploy of the Interconnected Electricity System (SENI) during the Hurricane Maria in 2017. He said the energy system, identified as BESA, operated permanently and maintained the stability of the charge of batteries above 45%, despite the strong and continued variations that occurred during the hurricane.
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El Caribe
9 July 2018
