Empresa Generadora de Electricidad (EGE Haina) and the National Energy Commission (CNE) signed the definitive concession contract to build and operate the 80MW Sajoma Solar Park in San Jose de las Matas, Santiago province. The plant will have capacity to produce 148,000 GWh annually, enough to supply the demand of some 60,000 homes each year.
The agreement contemplated the regulations and terms corresponding to this work of electricity generation from solar energy and was signed by José A. Rodríguez Silvestre, general manager of EGE Haina, and the executive director of the CNE, Edward Veras.
The park will extend over 140 hectares of land in the municipality of San José de las Matas, Santiago province.
At the meeting, José A. Rodríguez, general manager of EGE Haina, highlighted that this project is part of EGE Haina’s strategy to expand 1,000 MW of renewable capacity and 400 MW to natural gas, in the period 2020-2030. “This new plant will avoid the import of approximately 244,000 barrels of oil and the emission into the atmosphere of 90,000 tons of CO₂ each year,” he said.
Meanwhile, Edward Veras, executive director of the CNE, highlighted the support of the Abinader administration to renewable energy. “Solar energy reduces costs and prices in the national electricity market. Therefore, renewable energy generation in the Dominican Republic will give us greater independence from oil, gas or coal,” said Veras, as reported in N Digital.
The Sajoma Solar Park will be developed in the central mountain range of the Dominican Republic at an elevation of approximately 490 meters above sea level, making it the highest photovoltaic plant in the country.
This solar park is to comprise 123,100 bifacial monocrystalline photovoltaic modules of 650 watts, manufactured with a transparent back sheet or double tempered glass, which will allow light from both sides of the cells to increase their efficiency.
The solar power plant will include a substation and transmission infrastructure. The project will also have a substation, a 14.6 km long double-circuit transmission line and Greeley conductor, and the adaptation of two line fields at the 138 kV / 345 kV Naranjo substation.
The construction phase will last twelve months and will require the hiring of more than 600 people, mostly local labor from the communities near the project.
A public-private consortium, Ege Haina is the largest power generation company in the Dominican Republic. It now lists six renewable power plants. These include the Los Cocos and Larimar wind farms, the Girasol solar farm in San Cristóbal, the Parque Quisqueya in San Pedro de Macorís, and Esperanza Solar in Valverde.
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N Digital
12 April 2023