The popular Bank Dominican (BPD) reported today that the complex of its corporate headquarters People’s Towerwhich houses five business buildings, is already a building that works since the beginning of the year exclusively with clean energy of photovoltaic origin, which is acquired from the generating company Dominican AES.
With this announcement, framed in the celebration of the World Day of the Energy Savingwhich is commemorated every October 21, the banking entity deepens its efforts to extend sustainability criteria in its business model, in compliance with its commitment to the Principles of Responsible Banking of the United Nations.
Specifically, according to the statement, the green energy is produced by one of the solar parks photovoltaic Dominican AESwhich is distributed through the energy system Interconnected (SENI) under a supply contract, whose annual average supply is 9,300 megawatts.
The contract, which entered into full execution in January 2022, will have provided average estimated savings on the electric bill in excess of $132,576. Furthermore, thanks to the use of this energy source sustainable, the popular Bank will reduce annually your carbon footprint in 5,900 tons, equivalent to planting 592,131 trees every year.
In addition to this photovoltaic supply, the work area and the commercial office that make up the People’s Tower They have systems that make energy consumption more efficient, such as intelligent control and measurement of temperature and air quality, LED lighting, monitoring of power plants and fuel consumption.
Engineer José Hernández Caamaño, Vice President of the Engineering and Maintenance del Popular, stressed how this initiative is added to other actions that strengthen the sustainable vision of the company.
“We are innovators and pioneers in developing a major commitment in favor of the clean energyeco-efficiency and planetbecause this use of green energy In the complex People’s Tower complements the efforts we have been making with our network of photovoltaic offices,” he said.
Since Dominican AESits commercial director for the segment of electricityMichelle Reyes, stressed the importance of the extension of the use of green energiesbecause these have a double advantage.
He said they improve competitiveness of the business, through lower costs, and also help reduce the direct and indirect impact on the environment of electricity consumption.
Business development vision emblem
the complex People’s Towerwhich was inaugurated in 1992 and recently celebrated its 30th anniversary, has a architectural design work of the architect Pedro Borrell. Its construction was carried out by the company Haza & Pellerano and the structural design was carried out by Reginald García.
Its conceptualization is inscribed in the postmodern architecturewith elements brutalistswhich allude to the door of the Casa del Cordón, former corporate offices.
The mission of the work is to represent an emblem of the Business developmentunderlining its connection with Dominicanness and progress, in addition to being a cardinal point in the city of Santo Domingo since its inauguration.
Currently, in this set of buildings more than 2,565 work people.
