Days after the President of the Republic, Luis Abinader, signed the Decree 517-25through which he declared the National emergency In the national electrical system, to free the public sector from bureaucratic procedures for energy hiring, a generation vessel arrived in the country.
Abinader signed the legal text on Monday, September 8 and on Thursday, Thursday 11 residents and media in the province of Azua reported the Los Negros beach robberyin Puerto Viejo, of a new unit of electric production, named Karadeniz Powership Cankuthan Beyas visualized in a video that Diario Libre had access.
The plant, which joins two other plants of that type that the Turkish company Karpowership has in the aforementioned demarcation, arrived in Dominican territory from Cuba, according to the vessel monitoring platform Marine Traffic.
The increase in electrical demand, added to problems in the distribution of the service and the breach of the planning of the sector, is causing Energy cuts during night hours in different sectors and provinces of the country, which led to the Presidential decision.
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“It is necessary to provide SENI (interconnected national electrical system) with additional firm, flexible and rapid generation capacity, in order to strengthen the reliability of the national electricity supply, by incorporating rapid response generation units,” as read in one of recitals of the decree.
The boats were installed in the aforementioned Azuana town after the company won an emergency tender in 2022. The plants appeared for 2024 among the highest cost of Electric generation In the Seni.
Generation cost
According to the merit order list that the system coordinating agency elaborates, the Powership, as they are also known, appeared in 2024 in the positions 38 and 39of the 49 centrals of Electric generation of the country, with the Variable dispatch cost (CVD) more expensive.
The document states that the CVD of one of the plants was 8,410.2 pesos the megavatio-hora and the other of 8,519.6 pesos. Similarly, both units are among the centrals that least Operation hours They had during the last yearwith 3,652 and 2,655 hours.
