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Santo Domingo.- The Dominican Republic has seen record levels of electricity consumption, with power demand peaking at 3,662.27 megawatts on Wednesday. This demand was fully met by the electrical system.
Minister of Energy and Mines Antonio Almonte announced this milestone, noting that the country consumed 80 million kilowatt-hours (80 GWh) on that day. This represents the highest growth in national energy consumption to date.
“This year, energy demand is growing at a rate of 10%, a figure unprecedented in other countries. In the Dominican Republic, it is the first time we have reached this level,” said Almonte. He attributed the significant increase primarily to the residential sector due to urban expansion and the rising “electrification” of daily activities.
Despite some generators being temporarily offline for preventive maintenance, the energy demand was fully supplied.
The government of President Luis Abinader has ensured timely electrical tenders and has encouraged private initiatives for new generators in Boca Chica and Azua, alongside renewable and thermal energy installations during the current administration.
“Social peace, public safety, employment, and production require sufficient and quality energy. Therefore, the Government continues to expand generation capacity with renewables and natural gas, supplying between 98 and 100% of daily demand,” emphasized Almonte.
Only one question….. If need was completely met, explain why we had multiple outages in LaVega over the past week. Although that is pretty normal it is not indicative of completely met.
Your outage was because of a failure of the local distribution system, and it was not because the overall system did not have enough power.
To solve the overall problem, production needs to meet or exceed demand. This is now happening, and it has not always been this way. Next, upgrades are needed to the distribution system. Investments are being made, but there is a lot of work to do.
You need to meet the demand you have growing population business sector hotels they need lots of energy country need more generators to meet demand.
Stop repeating the garbage that was given to you. You know well enough that not everyone in the country gets electricity 24/7. They turn off the the power in a lot of areas, especially in poor neighborhoods and outskirts of the cities. The bullshit response of yours is not acceptable. If during the Danilo and Leonel presidency they had ensure that the electric plants that were purchased from the United States were in perfect working condition, the Dominican Republic will not been having these issues. Dirty politics and the lining of certain optical figures and officers of The electric company in DR is the true cause of the irregular distribution of electricity in the country. Incall what you are saying bullshit and lies.
Stop talking about Danilo and his thieves, you know very clearly what he did in DR.
Supply is there. The issue is distribution. Needs an update.
It is not true that every one in the country was supplied with electricity . The habit in my country is to provide full energy to those that pay extra to certain individuals and in other areas only supply an hour or so daily and charge them as if they had electricity 24/7. The same thing applies to the water supply. Stop taking that BS being provided by those officials of the electric company.