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11-07-2008, 06:10 PM
State-run Electricity Companies vice president Radhames Segura says the government will give the Dominican Petroleum Refinery (REFIDOMSA) US$38 million to purchase fuel to relieve the financial difficulties that have caused the recent prolonged blackouts. Segura also said that an estimated 250MW of power will enter the system within the next few days, hopefully alleviating the latest power crisis to affect the DR. Segura also announced that a fuel tanker with 180,000 barrels of fuel that arrived in the DR yesterday will be used by the EGE-Haina, San Felipe and Falconbridge generators. Segura says that Itabo II, out of service due to technical difficulties, will provide 125MW, while Haina I and Haina IV will supply 40MW and 60W, and Mitsubishi will add 30MW to the grid. Segura says that an extra 330MW of energy have entered the grid since Monday.
Long blackouts are affecting business, schools and home life. Hoy reports that residents in the capital have taken to the streets demanding an end to the blackouts. As reported in Hoy, the Avenida Padre Castellanos Business Association says that 100 small businesses have had to close down because they can't afford to run back-up power sources. Hoy writes that isolated incidents of violence and tire burning have been reported throughout the city and that residents in the Cibao region have been enduring blackouts lasting up to 15 hours. However the Energy Superintendent says that there was only a 22% deficit in the system yesterday, with generation of 1,355MW compared with 1,734MW of demand.
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Long blackouts are affecting business, schools and home life. Hoy reports that residents in the capital have taken to the streets demanding an end to the blackouts. As reported in Hoy, the Avenida Padre Castellanos Business Association says that 100 small businesses have had to close down because they can't afford to run back-up power sources. Hoy writes that isolated incidents of violence and tire burning have been reported throughout the city and that residents in the Cibao region have been enduring blackouts lasting up to 15 hours. However the Energy Superintendent says that there was only a 22% deficit in the system yesterday, with generation of 1,355MW compared with 1,734MW of demand.
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