Turkish floating power station irem sultan it is directed towards Havana after being forced to leave the Dominican Republic, where she was not allowed to continue with an electricity generation project, according to information published by Free Journal.
There, according to statements by the representative of the Turkish company Karpowership, Carlos Matamoros, to the Dominican newspaperthey could not install the power line: “The population has not allowed us to finish the work on the line.”
The residents of the community of Los Negros, in the province of Azua, rebelled against the works, giving rise to riots in which there were even injuries, at the end of September.
The executive explained that the Turkish company had signed a contract with the Dominican government, which they cannot activate “because they do not have the transmission line ready and that implies losses.”
The shipment of the ship to Cuba, he also assured, is temporary, “until the works are finished and the permits are obtained.”
Santo Domingo, remember free newspaper, offered a tender for the 178-megawatt installation that Karpowership won, but in order for it to be able to dispatch electricity, they emphasize, “the company must abide by measures from the authorities, in order not to affect the renewable energy plants that are located in the area”.
Tallapiedra, whose official name is CTE Otto Parellada, the giant that when it is in operation can be heard from all corners of the capital, is in custody
The same medium, several weeks ago, explained that in order to build the project in that area, the permission of the Ministry of the Environmentwhich has the application to its credit but has not yet issued an opinion.
In Cuba, one of the five generating ships that Karpowership has on the island is moored next to the Tallapiedra plant, in Havana. It is through the wiring of this thermoelectric plant that the floating plant transports the electricity it produces.
Tallapiedra, whose official name is CTE Otto Parellada, the giant that when it is in operation is heard from all corners of the capital, is detained, for the rest, as verified 14ymedio this same Monday.
Since Thursday, when the Cuban Electric Union communicated in its part that the plant was out of service, it has not given any further news.
On the island, not only is the environmental impact caused by floating generators unknown, but also the amount that Havana pays for the lease of the port.
The only public reference to the amount for similar contracts is the one carried out in 2011 between Pakistan and Karkey (belonging, as Karpowership, to Karadeniz Holding) to bring a ship to the port of Karachi that was to provide 231 megawatts (MW). The country made an advance payment of nine million dollars only as charges for electrical power, something that ended up in court for breaching the agreed generation.
In late August, it came to light that Havana was negotiating double the energy produced by these floating plantswhich until then generated around 250 MW (a tiny amount compared to the needs of the National Electro-energy System, which is around a daily deficit of one thousand megawatts).
The main stumbling block, Reuters reported at the time, was payment. “The embargo makes Western financial transactions very difficult, and Cuba is cash-strapped and behind on payments with many suppliers and joint-venture partners,” one of the sources said. If the negotiations materialized or not, it is something that is not known either.
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