be blackouts or interruptions, the service of Energy electricity continues to be interrupted to the Dominican population due to various causes that reduce the ability to meet the electricity demand. From different parts of the country they report blackouts.
Among all the causes, the most shocking is the departure for maintenance, one scheduled and the other corrective, of two generators that reduce the capacity of the national energy system by 670 MW.
But breakdowns are also added, such as those currently suffered by the Edenorte company, due to weather conditions, and which is already having consequences in the cities of Puerto Plata, La Vega and Espaillat.
Yesterday, the distributor Edesur Dominicana reported that almost 30 sectors of the Santo Domingo province and the National District, connected to its HNUV104 circuit, were without electricity due to the breakdown caused by a vehicle crash that affected two power lines and a transformer.
In a telephone call, Celso Marranzini, president of the Technical Committee of the Thermoelectric Power Plant Trust Catalina Pointreiterated what they had already explained in a statement last Wednesday that the maintenance of Unit 1 of said plant is extended until May 30.
The reason, he insisted, is due to delays in local services, in the arrival of spare parts due to the international situation.
“We are the first who want to be online because we sell electricity”President of the Technical Committee of the Punta Catalina Thermoelectric Power Plant Trust
Unit 1 of Catalina Point It has been out of service since March 26, when it was reported that it would be in a maintenance process for 45 days.
“We gave 45 days and after 45 days we published a statement asking our customers for excuses,” recalled Marranzini, who defends the transparency with which the thermoelectric plant would be managed.
“We are the first ones who want to be online because we sell electricity and when the plant is under maintenance, we are not selling,” said Marranzini, who recalls that for any company to stop selling is a loss and that they are obliged to generate income to meet your commitments. He argued that, like any other company, they are obliged to be efficient.
Catalina Point It contributes 356 MW of the 670 MW of the current deficit that completes the output for an “urgent maintenance” of the 300 megawatt natural gas generator AES Andrés.
In the statement in which the company announced the departure of the generator, it assured that it would start operating again this Thursday, May 12, connecting to the system on the date, as confirmed to Diario Libre.
Due to the deficit in the generation, several blackouts have been felt in the areas of Cibao where service cuts of up to eight hours are reported.
However, Andrés Cueto, general manager of Edenorte, who insists that in the country there is no blackouts but interruptions, ensures that they are scheduled for about two hours.
“We are rotating it in the 14 provinces, 60 municipalities and 101 districts and we distribute it. We are giving each one of them two hours (of court), that does not have privileges, because we have to bring the service to everyone”.
Edenorte, which has more than 1.4 million users, had to leave 79,000 of them without service at 8:00 p.m. on Wednesday, and the number rose to 89,555 at 11:00 that same night. The data is provided by Cueto as an example that the generation deficit is not static and that it increases during peak hours of consumption, which goes from 6:00 in the afternoon to 11:00 at night.
He assures that by noon yesterday, for example, they were supplying all the demand with a generation that was 538 megabytes. But he pointed out the difficulties they are having due to the rains.
“Around here (in the Cibao) it is raining a lot, and when it rains… Today we have breakdowns, in Puerto Plata, La Vega, Espaillat, in Imbert,” he said, although he added that breakdowns are daily for different reasons.
Finally he explained his theory that in the country there is no blackouts because there is generation and that the output of the plant, as Catalina PointIt is something that is programmed. “The government has no conflict with the generators, because of 100% of the collections from the distributors, 75% goes to pay the generators,” he added.
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