Marino Collante, the executive director of the Dominican Airport Authority, called for the construction of three more generating facilities such as the one under construction by Odebrecht at Punta Catalina. Collante said that in the midst of this precarious situation facing our electricity service there is an obvious need to construct large electricity generators.
Businessmen and their worries about electricity increasing costs were the headline news in several newspapers at the end of last week. Many businesses fear that because of this current crisis, their production cost will increase as they need to use standby generators in order to maintain production. According to the Diario Libre, the government is currently in “permanent session” in order to deal with the situation and they have announced that they are going to provide the resources necessary to purchase additional energy.
At the same time, residents of different sectors of Greater Santo Domingo expressed their worries about the crisis in the electric system to reporters from the Diario Libre. Residents of Pantoja, Manoguayabo, Hato Nuevo, Buenos Aires in Herrera, Los Alcarrizos and the Girasoles complained that they were only receiving some three hours of electricity each day. Some of the electricity distributors have reported that the suspension of service has been going on for several days and are the result of the reduction in electricity produced by the nation’s generators after several plants went off-line after the shutdown of AES Andres natural gas power plant.
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Diario Libre
17 September 2018
