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04-13-2011, 05:20 PM
The 24-hour blackout-free zones are suffering from blackouts these days. Edesur Dominicana reports that the outages are because four power generation plants are out of the system. CDEEE says arrears in payments are not the cause of the blackouts. Celso Marranzini said that the arrears are at 45 days as established in the agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF). He said it is responsibility of the power generation companies to source their fuel. He said he would meet today on the issue with the Dominican Association of Electricity Industries (ADIE). The power plants out of operation for fueling problems were Palamara, Haina IV, CEPP and Haina Gas, as reported in Hoy.

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