More dollars for lights
The Dominican government has promised to pay the generators US$60 million over the next three months. Yesterday 15-20 hour blackouts were still affecting the country, although in some areas more hours of power were delivered for a slight relief. Energy sector officials Radhames Segura, Ruben Montas and Francisco Mendoza met yesterday with the heads of Ede-Norte, Ede-Sur and Ede-Este (the power distributors), as well as representatives from Itabo, Haina, Monte Rio, Seaboard, Smith-Enron, Cogentrix and Laesa. After the meeting, a government spokesperson said an agreement had been reached by which the government would pay US$60 million to the generators over the next three months in addition to the US$44 million already paid. Segura, who is the executive vice-president of the CDEEE, told reporters from Hoy that the government was trying to obtain US$25 million from the World Bank to help stem the crisis. According to him, the electric situation should start to improve within ten days.
Segura also announced that President Fernandez would reveal the government's plans for the medium and long terms to resolve this greatest of the current crises.
The electricity distributors, known as the EDEs, have furthermore promised to renew their efforts to collect sufficient money from their clients during October, November and December so that the government may hand over the US$20 million to the generators each month.
With the new plans, Segura said he expected generation to ascend to 2,000 MW, sufficient to meet demand. The Dominican Republic has 3,600 MW of installed generation, but, with most of the units shut down, the daily demand cannot be met. Yesterday, generation was a mere 468 MW, while demand represented more than 1500 MW
Originally Posted by Lechero
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