May, 7
SANTO DOMINGO.- The passing of the Renewable Energy Law has activated several wind energy projects, from the Dominican Republic’s great potential in that area, said Punta Cana-Macao Power Partnership
PR Marta Fernandez.
She said at the start of next year the Bayahíbe Electricity Company will begin to produce energy from a 9 megawatt pilot project in the East region and with another from 100 to 150 megawatts in Barahona southwest). She said there are 5 wind generators in Punta Caucedo, near the capital.
Interviewed by the newspaper Hoy, Fernandez said Punta Cana and Bayahíbe have no blackouts and that her firm collaborates with the community with free energy for public schools, hospitals, churches, the Tourism Police (Politur), the Navy and street lights.
She said the country has a great potential for wind energy in several regions, including Puerto Plata, Barahona, the South, and the East.
She said other international companies with projects to produce wind energy were only waiting for the Renewable Energy Law’s approval to invest. She said they some require financing from international organisms, such as the World Bank’s IFC.
Fernandez said the new Renewable Energy Law
meets investors’ expectations to produce wind energy. She said the group to whom they belong Eje-Haina, Tesem and Setem saw the possibility uniting efforts so that there is greater a repercussion in the work at environmental level.
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