{"id":134584,"date":"2019-12-26T13:07:01","date_gmt":"2019-12-26T13:07:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ny1.dr1.com.do\/wordpress\/?p=134584"},"modified":"2019-12-26T16:18:28","modified_gmt":"2019-12-26T16:18:28","slug":"punta-catalina-i-begins-commercial-operations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2019\/12\/26\/punta-catalina-i-begins-commercial-operations\/","title":{"rendered":"Punta Catalina I begins commercial operations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"345\" src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Punta-Catalina-El-Dia-e1577377095111.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-134599\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Dominican Public Electricity Corporation (CDEEE) reports that Punta Catalina I has been generating a stable 360 megawatts for the national power grid. The second unit of the coal-fired thermoelectric plant has been consistently injecting over 200 megawatts into the grid. The two units should be generating around 720 megawatts no later than February 2020. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jim\u00e9nez Bichara said that Punta Catalina and the conversion of fuel oil plants to natural gas with additional savings of US$300 million a year are creating the conditions for the total elimination of the government electricity subsidy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/eldia.com.do\/punta-catalina-i-inicia-operaciones-comerciales-vende-us25-millones\/\">El Dia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>26 December 2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dominican Public Electricity Corporation (CDEEE) reports that Punta Catalina I has been generating a stable 360 megawatts for the national power grid. The second unit of the coal-fired thermoelectric plant has been consistently injecting over 200 megawatts into the grid. The two units should be generating around 720 megawatts no later than February 2020. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2019\/12\/26\/punta-catalina-i-begins-commercial-operations\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[154,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134584"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134584"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134601,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134584\/revisions\/134601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}