Dominican Republic state hydroelectric company EgeHID’s push to add non-conventional renewable energies has advanced with a recent solar project award.
The Consorcio Solar del Sur (Consosur) was selected for the engineering, procurement and construction of the 22MW Domingo Rodríguez park in San Juan de la Maguana province in the southwest. The project is a push by Dominican Republic public-private state hydroelectric company EgeHID to add non-conventional renewable energies.
Consosur is comprised of RAAS Solar and Solar World Stain and the contract value is US$19 million. The consortium has 12 months to complete the project.
For its part, Caribbean Coast General Contractors was awarded the contract to supervise the work.
Recently, EgeHID put into operation a 3MW solar farm at the Brazo Derecho hydro, which the company said, “marks the beginning of an ambitious plan to diversify Egehid’s generation matrix.”
The state operator has bidding underway for the 50MW Tierra Nueva wind project and its development pipeline includes the 10MW Brazo Derecho wind project.
EgeHID also has a call in place to build the La Gina multipurpose hydro project, the bidding deadline for which was extended to 10 September 2024.
Hydroreview reports that during January through May 2024, the Dominican Hydroelectric Generation Company (EgeHID) registered renewable energy production of 575,532.83 MWh, which avoided the purchase of 1,107,952.49 barrels of oil.
Compared to the same period of the previous year, in January through May 2024 hydropower produced 161.6 GW more, mainly due to the contribution of increased rainfall in mountainous areas, as well as improvements in the operation of hydroelectric plants.
Hydroelectric generation during the first five months of 2024 allowed the Dominican Republic to save US$89.1 million, which would have been the cost to purchase oil in the international market.
In May 2024 in particular, hydroelectric production was 163.7 GWh, while in the same month of 2023 it was 65.1 GWh, for an increase of 251.4%.
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15 August 2024