Rolando Gonzalez Bunster, chief executive of the Consorcio Energetico Punta Cana-Macao (CEPM), the largest electricity provider in the eastern region, announced during the Madrid FITUR tourism fair in Madrid that the company is investing US$140 million in a 90-megawatt natural gas and diesel-powered plant for the Bavaro hotel and residential area in Punta Cana. The construction of the power plant will be concluded in November 2018. Likewise, the company will build a solar energy park for another 25 megawatts with construction scheduled to start in March 2018. The plants are under construction to serve the demand from the rapidly developing Punta Cana tourism destination.
The company says they are also contemplating investing US$20 million in a solid waste treatment plant with capacity for 400 tons of waste.
Power generation and distribution in the Punta Cana area is private, with CEPM being the leading provider.
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El Dia
22 January 2018
