These are times when big companies in the Dominican Republic are investing in solar energy while at the same time they seek governmental restrictions against homeowners installing the systems and a change in the present rules for solar energy. The Ministry of Energy has been listening to the big companies.
Meanwhile, last week 32 ministers from the Western Hemisphere gathered in Punta Cana to talk about energy. The Sixth Meeting of Energy Ministers of the Energy and Climate Partnership of the Americas (ECPA) took place at the Barcelo Bavaro Convention Center in Punta Cana from 14 to 15 March 2024.
The focus of the meeting was Renewable Energy in the Americas: Integration and Innovation.
Dominican Minister of Energy and Mines Antonio Almonte told his colleagues that the Dominican nation has taken large steps forward in the area of renewable energy, especially in the use of solar panels. Almonte went so far as to say that the DR is the country with the largest increase in the use of solar energy. He urged his fellow minister to use the financial facilities offered by the InterAmerican Development Bank (IADB), and other institutions, to finance their installations of renewable energy.
Almonte also noted that the use of biomass as a source of energy was being tested on a small scale in the DR, but this source of energy usually requires large areas of land that the DR does not have.
The Meeting of Energy Ministers is a high-level event that convenes government leaders, private sector representatives, experts in energy and sustainable development, and other key stakeholders from across Latin America and the Caribbean. The high-level gathering focuses on discussing, exchanging ideas, and forming concrete commitments to further the transition to clean, sustainable, and renewable energy in the Americas.
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Diario Libre
Diario Libre
18 March 2024