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10-12-2011, 03:50 PM
President Leonel Fernandez inaugurated the Parque Eolico Los Cocos in Juancho in the southwestern province of Pedernales yesterday. It will be the country's second wind generation operation. The first was a small pilot program in Samana, providing energy to local hotels.
The US$100 million wind power project, an investment by EgeHaina, is powered by 14 Vesta wind turbines, model V90-1.8 MW. It will generate 25 megawatts with estimated savings of 200,000 barrels of oil, or about US$20 million a year.
Fernandez also inaugurated the Parque Eolico Quilvio Cabrera that will contribute another 8.25 megawatts to the system, sponsored by the Consorcio Energetico Punta Cana-Macao (CEPM), with five more windmills, which will save an estimated 45,000 barrels of oil annually.
EgeHaina president Edgar Pichardo and general manager Tito Sanjurjo led the ceremony at Los Cocos. The government representatives included executive vice president of the Public Electricity Corporation Celso Marranzini, National Energy Council (CNE) president Enrique Ramirez, and superintendent of electricity (SIE) Juan Bautista Gomez.
Edgar Pichardo of EgeHaina announced the second phase of the Los Cocos wind energy project. "Our company, its firm commitment to a sustainable energy future, will immediately initiate a second phase of wind power development in this same region, with the best wind potential in the country" he said. He said that by 2012, wind farm generation capacity would be increased from 25 to 77 megawatts of energy.
Enrique Ramirez, president of the National Energy Commission (CNE) announced that the DR is the seventh country in Latin America to install a wind farm. He said that the second phase will increase generation to 52 megawatts and other projects will be developed between 2012 and 2013, including one 30-megawatt wind farm in Bani, also in the southwest, and another in the northwestern province of Montecristi with 50 megawatts, financed by the Inter-American Development Bank, as reported in Hoy.
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The US$100 million wind power project, an investment by EgeHaina, is powered by 14 Vesta wind turbines, model V90-1.8 MW. It will generate 25 megawatts with estimated savings of 200,000 barrels of oil, or about US$20 million a year.
Fernandez also inaugurated the Parque Eolico Quilvio Cabrera that will contribute another 8.25 megawatts to the system, sponsored by the Consorcio Energetico Punta Cana-Macao (CEPM), with five more windmills, which will save an estimated 45,000 barrels of oil annually.
EgeHaina president Edgar Pichardo and general manager Tito Sanjurjo led the ceremony at Los Cocos. The government representatives included executive vice president of the Public Electricity Corporation Celso Marranzini, National Energy Council (CNE) president Enrique Ramirez, and superintendent of electricity (SIE) Juan Bautista Gomez.
Edgar Pichardo of EgeHaina announced the second phase of the Los Cocos wind energy project. "Our company, its firm commitment to a sustainable energy future, will immediately initiate a second phase of wind power development in this same region, with the best wind potential in the country" he said. He said that by 2012, wind farm generation capacity would be increased from 25 to 77 megawatts of energy.
Enrique Ramirez, president of the National Energy Commission (CNE) announced that the DR is the seventh country in Latin America to install a wind farm. He said that the second phase will increase generation to 52 megawatts and other projects will be developed between 2012 and 2013, including one 30-megawatt wind farm in Bani, also in the southwest, and another in the northwestern province of Montecristi with 50 megawatts, financed by the Inter-American Development Bank, as reported in Hoy.
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