The vice-president of the Dominican Public Electricity Corporation (CDEEE), Ruben Jimenez Bichara, told reporters late last week that they were contemplating switching some 500 MW of energy production to natural gas and said that the government was preparing the international tender for the conversion. He said that the conversion of 500-600 megawatts (MW) of cleaner energy would be implemented in parallel to the government’s work on renewable energy. The tender would be announced shortly. He said that the CDEEE has been contemplating this reconversion to natural gas for over ten years, and this is the time to get it started.
Jimenez Bichara said that this move was to address the predicted higher energy demand in the years following the integration of the Punta Catalina coal-fired generator into the grid. It is estimated that Punta Catalina will contribute some 720 MW of coal-fired energy to the national grid.
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El Caribe
28 January 2019
