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07-22-2011, 11:40 AM
President Leonel Fernandez inaugurated the Santiago-Santo Domingo electricity highway yesterday. The government says the project cost EUR120 million. Works began in July 2006 and they announced at the time that it would be completed in two years. The government described the project as the largest of its kind built in Central America and the Caribbean.
The project included the construction of two new electricity substations at 138/345kV located in Santo Domingo and Santiago respectively, plus the expansion of the existing five substations and connecting them to the national grid with 138kV transmission lines.
At the inaugural event, executive vice president of the Public Electricity Corporation (CDEEE) Celso Marranzini described the highway as "the second metro" built by the Fernandez government. He said the country would make savings of around US$130 million a year for losses on the grid in the past.
As reported, the 130km-long transmission line making up the 345kV Electric Highway power project links the country's two main industrial centers n Santiago and Santo Domingo.
One of the major contractors was Siemens, which was commissioned to supply the Empresa de Transmision Electrica Dominicana (ETED), the Dominican government contractor, with seven 345kV bays for Los Naranjos, the grid's main substation, and update two 138kV bays at the Canabacoa substation, two 138kV bays at the Pizarrete substation, and two 138kV bays at the Palamara substation.
Speaking at the inauguration, ETED chief executive Julian Santana said the start of operations of the network solves the voltage problems that affected the Cibao region, which up till now has depended on the substations of Palamara in La Vega, San Felipe in Puerto Plata and the hydroelectric generators.
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The project included the construction of two new electricity substations at 138/345kV located in Santo Domingo and Santiago respectively, plus the expansion of the existing five substations and connecting them to the national grid with 138kV transmission lines.
At the inaugural event, executive vice president of the Public Electricity Corporation (CDEEE) Celso Marranzini described the highway as "the second metro" built by the Fernandez government. He said the country would make savings of around US$130 million a year for losses on the grid in the past.
As reported, the 130km-long transmission line making up the 345kV Electric Highway power project links the country's two main industrial centers n Santiago and Santo Domingo.
One of the major contractors was Siemens, which was commissioned to supply the Empresa de Transmision Electrica Dominicana (ETED), the Dominican government contractor, with seven 345kV bays for Los Naranjos, the grid's main substation, and update two 138kV bays at the Canabacoa substation, two 138kV bays at the Pizarrete substation, and two 138kV bays at the Palamara substation.
Speaking at the inauguration, ETED chief executive Julian Santana said the start of operations of the network solves the voltage problems that affected the Cibao region, which up till now has depended on the substations of Palamara in La Vega, San Felipe in Puerto Plata and the hydroelectric generators.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#1)