Dominicana_1965
31st October 2006, 23:51
Dominican blackout woes continue unabated
SANTO DOMINGO.- Of the Dominican electric grid’s 49 power plants, 32 continue off line today and only 17 operate normally, resulting in rolling blackouts of up to 12 hours in the entire territory, especially in the National District and the Santo Domingo province.
According to the Electricity Superintendence, in the last hours the plant Itabo II entered in line with 169 megawatts, bringing the electricity generation today up to 1,399 megawatts from 1,230.
The electricity production continues low and the company Ege-Haina, one of the highest capacities, has the plants Haina I with 32 MW and the Sultana del Este with 135, for a production of 16 MW.
Also in line are Itabo I with 126, Falcondo I with 52, Falcondo II and III with 50 megawatts each, and the combined cycle Smith-Enron, in Puerto Plata, which operates in a single phase with 148.7 MW.
Other plants in line are Pimentel with 30 MW, Metaldom with 30.7 and Cogentrix I with 70, Palamara 29.2, and Estrella Marina with 59,2.
IN addition, Estrella del Norte with 32.4; unit II of Puerto Plata’s Electrical Company has 21.5; AES-Andrés with 204 and Monte Rio with 72 MW.
The plants Haina II and IV, Barahona Coal, Barahona Turbogás, San Pedro Steam, San Pedro Turbogás, Puerto Platar I and II, Itabo II and III, Higuamo I and II, Itabo Turbogás I, II and III, and the Maxon company’s 10 plants have been out of service for long time.
Also out of service are Cogentrix II and III, Palamara La Vega, and unit I of the the Puerto Plata Electrical Company.
Residents in different sectors of Santo Domingo complain of the electricity blackouts of up to 12 hours continue.
Residents of the exclusive sectors Arroyo Hondo, Piantini, Naco, Bella Vista and others say that the blackouts are altering the normal activities in their neighborhoods, because there’s power for only five or six hours per day.
The popular sectors also complain of the lack of electricity, as residents in Santo Domingo East, specially Los Minas, Villa Duarte, Invivienda, Lucerna, Cancino, Almirante and Hainamosa affirm that they get only four or five hours, doing without for most of the day.
The blackouts also affect Santiago, La Vega, San Francisco, Puerto Plata, Salcedo, Bonao and other communities in the northern region Cibao.
Whereas the inhabitants of the Dominican South affirm that for several weeks the electricity distributor company Ede-Sur has not been providing power with regularity.
http://dominicantoday.com/app/article.aspx?id=19219
I want to know why these black outs occur in D.R.
for a long long time blackouts in the Dominican republic been going on , but what is to blame?
SANTO DOMINGO.- Of the Dominican electric grid’s 49 power plants, 32 continue off line today and only 17 operate normally, resulting in rolling blackouts of up to 12 hours in the entire territory, especially in the National District and the Santo Domingo province.
According to the Electricity Superintendence, in the last hours the plant Itabo II entered in line with 169 megawatts, bringing the electricity generation today up to 1,399 megawatts from 1,230.
The electricity production continues low and the company Ege-Haina, one of the highest capacities, has the plants Haina I with 32 MW and the Sultana del Este with 135, for a production of 16 MW.
Also in line are Itabo I with 126, Falcondo I with 52, Falcondo II and III with 50 megawatts each, and the combined cycle Smith-Enron, in Puerto Plata, which operates in a single phase with 148.7 MW.
Other plants in line are Pimentel with 30 MW, Metaldom with 30.7 and Cogentrix I with 70, Palamara 29.2, and Estrella Marina with 59,2.
IN addition, Estrella del Norte with 32.4; unit II of Puerto Plata’s Electrical Company has 21.5; AES-Andrés with 204 and Monte Rio with 72 MW.
The plants Haina II and IV, Barahona Coal, Barahona Turbogás, San Pedro Steam, San Pedro Turbogás, Puerto Platar I and II, Itabo II and III, Higuamo I and II, Itabo Turbogás I, II and III, and the Maxon company’s 10 plants have been out of service for long time.
Also out of service are Cogentrix II and III, Palamara La Vega, and unit I of the the Puerto Plata Electrical Company.
Residents in different sectors of Santo Domingo complain of the electricity blackouts of up to 12 hours continue.
Residents of the exclusive sectors Arroyo Hondo, Piantini, Naco, Bella Vista and others say that the blackouts are altering the normal activities in their neighborhoods, because there’s power for only five or six hours per day.
The popular sectors also complain of the lack of electricity, as residents in Santo Domingo East, specially Los Minas, Villa Duarte, Invivienda, Lucerna, Cancino, Almirante and Hainamosa affirm that they get only four or five hours, doing without for most of the day.
The blackouts also affect Santiago, La Vega, San Francisco, Puerto Plata, Salcedo, Bonao and other communities in the northern region Cibao.
Whereas the inhabitants of the Dominican South affirm that for several weeks the electricity distributor company Ede-Sur has not been providing power with regularity.
http://dominicantoday.com/app/article.aspx?id=19219
I want to know why these black outs occur in D.R.
for a long long time blackouts in the Dominican republic been going on , but what is to blame?