The Secretariat of Energy and Minas of the Dominican Liberation Party (PLD) expressed his concern about the “notable deterioration of the electrical sector“, highlighting the increase in trade deficit of the Distribution Companies Energy (EDE).
The head of the Secretariat of Energy and Minas, Martín Matos, described as alarming the increase in losses in it electrical sectorwhich allows us to foresee a 2025 “gloomy” in this key area of the economy.
“He electrical sector Dominican closes 2024 with a deficit close to 92,000 million pesos (more than 1,500 million dollars)”, highlighted the opposition party on its account on the social network X.
The engineer and leader of the PLD expressed his concern about the lossesarguing that the sector authorities do not have an expansion project for electricity generation: “45% of losses and zero expansion projects in electricity generation. Awaits us a 2025 gloomy!” he wrote.
Losses of RD$6,360 million per month
In a previous message, Martin Matos reported that as of July 2024, the distribution companies of electricity they lost 44,520 million pesos or its equivalent 742 million dollars; “This is a loss of 6,360 million pesos every month,” he explained.
The head of the Secretariat of Energy and Minas of the PLD insisted on denouncing that the Government, instead of allocating the necessary resources to improve infrastructure and reduce the lossesa considerable part of the national budget is used to cover the deficit generated by poor management and growing inefficiencies in the sector.
