Santo Domingo.– The second unit of the Punta Catalina power plant was on Sun. connected to the grid for its first generation test, with a contribution of 21 megawatts and then taken out to review results.
Presidency spokesman, Roberto Rodríguez Marchena, said the unit was synchronized to the system at 4:47pm and injected energy into the system for the first time.
He said that shortly after it was disconnected to inject hydrogen and prepare it to re-synchronize it on Wednesday.
The first unit, which has been under tests for about three months, is also offline for technical review.