The Government Dominican announced this Sunday that it will install 400 megawatts (400MW) to the national electrical systemafter the tender for its acquisition concluded in April of this year.
The announcement is made at a time when some areas of the country were and are affected by blackouts, due to the departure of the generator AES Andrés and the entry into maintenance of the Punta Catalina coal-fired plant, which has not yet entered the system because maintenance to which it is subjected was extended.
The installation of the Energy will start in June and end in October this year, according to data provided by the Presidency in a press release.
The tender, number LPI-EDE-02-, was declared urgent “in order to ensure that before October of this year they are injecting energy.”
The electricity would be injected into the system medium barge-based generating units and also, modular plants already enabled for rapid installation on land”.
“As a result of this tender, the new generating units will begin to be installed and produce gradually from next June and have the end date to reach maximum production next October,” he explained.
In the document, the Presidency pointed out that the tender was declared urgent, because the generation park received in August 2020, “It was clearly in deficit, since if the maximum energy demand was supplied, the remaining reserve was less than 5%”.
He explained that, with the situation indicated above, what happened was that there was “so little capacity that any outage for repair or maintenance of a plant in the summer period would undoubtedly result in blackouts due to a deficit of available installed capacity.”
He defined this situation as “a clear threat to the well-being of the population and to the recovery and growth of the economy.”
