A report released by the Dominican Association of Electric Industries (ADIE) based on data from the Dominican Public Electricity Corporation (CDEEE) establishes that blackouts this year are not due to any lack of generation capacity. The Report on Performance of the Dominican Electricity Sector says that the power distribution companies did not buy sufficient energy to meet the demand.
The report found that from January to June 2014 the installed electricity generation capacity was 3,662 megawatts and 57% of this is generated by fuel oil. Nevertheless, that fuel, the most expensive only provides 36% of the demand of the power distributors. 60% of power is generated by plants operating on natural gas, coal, wind and water. The report established that for the first half of the year, the power distributors did not supply 1,259 gigawatts of power, when the generation companies had 1,898 gigawatts available, as reported in El Dia. This resulted in blackouts when there was excess generation capacity.
The report established that power generators sold electricity at an average cost of 16.63 cents (US$). The power distributors resold this at 18.51 cents, with a margin in their favor of 1.87 (US$) per kilowatt.