Santo Domingo.- The power system again approached the brink yesterday when the generators supplied just 1,375 megawatts for a demand of 2,100 MW, for a total deficit of 725 MW, or 34.5%.
The blackouts have become more frequent and prolonged in the last few days, especially in Santo Domingo province and the National District.
A Coordinator Organism (OC) report calls the situation in the Cibao region (north-central) critical, when the plant San Felipe was taken off line, while the hydroelectric dams’ water levels are still too low to supply energy. It says the hydroelectrics supply only 95 megawatts when their capacity surpass 430 MW.
The only generators working at full capacity are AES Andres, 260 MW and Pimentel Laesa, 57.8 MW, whereas EGEHaina, which can generate 600 MW, supplied only 171 MW yesterday. The old Cogentrix contributed 85 MW and AES Dominicana decided to power up Los Mina with 82 MW.
The lack of generation is behind the electricity crisis, as the power company San Felipe, in Puerto Plata (north), is under routine maintenance and will be offline for 17 days.
The authorities expected the hydroelectrics to compensate for the electricity deficit, but of a 435 MW capacity they barely put out 95 MW.
From: United States, Faber College Double Secret Probation
Disgruntled employees are doing this probably for having been kicked to the curb
Written by: juanb, 6 Nov 2009 9:20 AM
From: Dominican Republic
Its definitely getting worse here in Santiago.
From: United States, atlanta GA
WOW lets all just go SOLAR
GET OFF THE GRID
Written by: xwill7, 6 Nov 2009 10:39 AM
From: United States, Chicago
they better have things right by xmas
From: Dominican Republic
Its been good here in Cabarete so far this month, it has gone out for like an hour 3 times in 3 different days.
Written by: xwill7, 6 Nov 2009 11:02 AM
From: United States, Chicago
time2,
that is unacceptable in 1st worild countries
From: Dominican Republic
Written by: xwill7, 6 Nov 2009 11:02 AM
From: United States, Chicago
time2,
that is unacceptable in 1st worild countries
_______________________________________________
My mom went with my cuban stepfather to visit cuba for a month, and they stayed at his families house and he said that the lights did not go out not one time during there stay.
So your 100% correct it is unacceptable especially going into 2010 with new technologies.
Maybe they would lose monies if the lights where 24/7 since then the hotels and big companies with generators, would then not have to buy diesel.
Written by: locco, 6 Nov 2009 12:31 PM
From: Dominican Republic
IT is one Helleva , very stupid and greedy game here ,and very few will say anything about it , just another day
Written by: xwill7, 6 Nov 2009 12:33 PM
From: United States, Chicago
some towns that are near the water dams have reliable electric power
Written by: locco, 6 Nov 2009 12:41 PM
From: Dominican Republic
It real is not a problem to produce power the PROBLEM is how they intend to stop the STEALING from the TOP -----DOWN
Written by: josean, 6 Nov 2009 2:23 PM
From: United States
Y No Era Pa' Lante Que Ibamos?
From: United States, Rock Hills, North Carolina
Here is a stupid question:
If the problem is generating electricity; rather than distribution...why not build a nuclear power plant. Put it offshore if teh "Isla Beata" off the coast of Barahona...or even "La Isla Saona" off the coast of Higüey.
The Angra Nuclear Facility, located at the Central Nuclear Almirante Álvaro Alberto (CNAAA) on the Itaorna Beach in Angra dos Reis, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil produces 2,007 MWe. That's almost the entire demand of the DR. BUILD a nuclear power plant and forget about the apagones...
Written by: xwill7, 6 Nov 2009 4:35 PM
From: United States, Chicago
rosa,
I would not trust anyone in DR to be responsible enough to run a nuclear plant... That would be scary
From: Dominican Republic
Written by: xwill7, 6 Nov 2009 4:35 PM
From: United States, Chicago
rosa,
I would not trust anyone in DR to be responsible enough to run a nuclear plant... That would be scary
___________________________________________________________________
Yeah look how well they handle, River Dams during Tropical Storms.
From: United States, Rock Hills, North Carolina
Either we get serious about the "apagones" or we may as well give up. If places like North Korea can build and maintain nuclear power plants; then the DR should not have any problems.
We gotta start thinking like a developing country and not some Banana Republic, back water peasant workers' paradise...
Written by: Escott, 6 Nov 2009 5:12 PM
From: Dominican Republic, Cabrera and Sosua a few days a month
Scary enough just driving here let alone Nuclear...
Written by: danny00, 6 Nov 2009 5:16 PM
From: United States
JUAND.... yes your correct about electricity and santiago..... LIVE IN ONE CONDO pay for the electricity every month as do the other folks that live in this building..... im in florida now but i call my daughter every day..... SAME SH---T NO electricity , WE HAD ENOUGH OF THIS BULLS-----T IM GOING TO BRING HER TO MIAMI TO LIVE OVER HERE....OUT MOST OF THE MORNING YESTERDAY.... AND ALL AFTEROON TODAY...... BULLS-------------T.... HAD ENOUGH OF THIS.... LAST MONTH TWO MAFIA ROB MY DAUGHTER AT GUN POINT FOR HER CELL PHONE... SHE WAS COMING HOME FROM COLLEGE AT BOUT 7PM IN THE NIGHT.....TIME TO LEAVE THIS BEAUTIFULL ISLAND.....
Written by: danny00, 6 Nov 2009 5:20 PM
From: United States
holla xwill run a nuclear plant,, THINK YOUR RIGHT ON THIS ONE......LOL
most cant figure out how to use their debit cars at a cash machine....run a nuclear plant...lol
go see supermarket jose luis in puert plata..... they have elec doors one set to go in the other out...... most cant even figure this out.... how to go in and how to go out...... run a nuclear plant,,,, lol.....u make me laugh with this.....
Written by: danny00, 6 Nov 2009 5:21 PM
From: United States
nothing is for real in this country....... "smoke and mirors"......
Written by: danny00, 6 Nov 2009 5:23 PM
From: United States
"SMOKE AND MIRRORS"....
never really been any ELEC. in this country and "THEIR NEVER WILL BE ANY"
Written by: xwill7, 6 Nov 2009 5:24 PM
From: United States, Chicago
danny,
with the high cost of college here in USA, you might as well leave her in Santiago until she finishes. I have the student loans to prove this lol...
Written by: danny00, 6 Nov 2009 5:28 PM
From: United States
rosa.. HOLLA...... North Korea can build and maintain nuclear power plants; then the DR should not have any problems, think you should see some of the colleges in KOREA... and what they turn out each year.... "students"...... THEN GO LOOK WHAT THE COLLEGES IN THE DR TURN OUT EACH YEAR...... and then look at the statement you made IF KOREA CAN DO IT WHY CANT WE"....
Written by: xwill7, 6 Nov 2009 5:30 PM
From: United States, Chicago
rosa,
if anyone else runs the nuclear plant then I would feel better. Look at what happened in Santiago when the water department worker opened up the dam too fast and released all of that water into Santiago...I love DR but no one follows proper procedures.
Look at the propane station that blew up a few months ago in SD
Look at the petro plant that was on fire in PR
Nuclear should only be handled by the Americans, arabs, and asians. They are most qualified
Written by: danny00, 6 Nov 2009 5:32 PM
From: United States
yes xwill i know the money and the prices..... but had enough of the BULL-S---------T .in the dr....
I HAVE LIVED IN MEXICO, BELIZE, ECT..... NEVER DID I EVER HAVE THE PROBLEMS WITH THE ELEC. LIKE IN THE DR......also the college i will place her in is more money no question... but its also a few STEPS UP FROM THE SCHOOLS IN SANTIAGO... and more then a FEW STEPS. UP
Written by: xwill7, 6 Nov 2009 5:40 PM
From: United States, Chicago
if she is studying medical in an international school in Santiago then she will be ok. The english they teach down there is bad though
Written by: danny00, 6 Nov 2009 5:41 PM
From: United States
AGAIN EXWILL GOOD COMMENT.......Nuclear should only be handled by the Americans, arabs, and asians. They are most qualified
u know that least in most countries they dont or cant PAY 4 THEIR DEGREE like in the dr....
plenty od doctors or so called doctors and attorney PAY 4 THEIR DEGREE in the land of SMOKE AND MIRRORS...WHERE NOTHING IS REAL....drivers license dept the other day.... give me $rds3,000 and your daughter will get her license.... NEVER, NEVER, NEVER, will i or my daughter pay for this..... better i take the piece of SH===T and push his head though my windshield....if my daughter can drive WHY does she have to make a PAYOFF?.. in the land of 'SMOKE AND MIRROS"...WHERE NOTHING IS 4 REAL
Written by: danny00, 6 Nov 2009 5:45 PM
From: United States
NEEED HER TO learn proper english..... NOT WHAT THEY TEACH IN THE DR.....u have teachers dominican ... trying to teach english the problem is most of them have never been to the states so its really hard for them to teach proper english.... JUST LOOK AT SOME OF THE BOOKS THEY GIVE TO THE KIDS TO STUDY....
Written by: danny00, 6 Nov 2009 5:47 PM
From: United States
in the dr..... every day the people talk about the elec..... in the states only i flip my switch when i come home and never even think about not having elec....have enough problems in life with out having this elec problem.... its really SAD the good people of the dr.. let this CONTINUE.... NO ELEC....
Written by: xwill7, 6 Nov 2009 5:48 PM
From: United States, Chicago
I could just imagine the nuclear being dumped in the waters. Can't trust anyone in DR to handle that. What about the driver that has to drive the waste some where, whill he be driving like the caribe tours drivers going 90mph???
look at what happened in Samana witht e ash that was dumped.
I want 24/7 power in DR but not nuclear. With the amount of sun in DR solar with batteries wil help
Written by: xwill7, 6 Nov 2009 5:50 PM
From: United States, Chicago
lol danny,
yes I have seen some of the books they use to teach... no one in the states uses some of the words in there... this is 2009 not 1950
Written by: danny00, 6 Nov 2009 5:51 PM
From: United States
need to go now.... have to make money so i can PAY FOR MY ELEC BILL THIS MONTH.....LOL
hey! its not a bad thing to PAY FOR ELEC..... wish others in the dr.... would think about this instead of stealing the elec..... {I PAY IN MIAMI AND THE DR 4 THE ELEC}
ITS A GOOD THING...TO DO
Written by: Sajomero, 6 Nov 2009 6:15 PM
From: United States, Santiago de los Caballeros
France is actually very good with their nuclear plants. Have any of you seen the price tags for new nuclear plants lately???Its in the billions of dollars, DR could never afford this price tag. We need to educate people on proper usage of electricity and on paying what they consume. Dr needs to dredge most hidroelectric dams to resume adecuate electricity production.
Written by: xwill7, 6 Nov 2009 6:52 PM
From: United States, Chicago
sajomero,
as long as they dont build a dam in inoa
Written by: allevato, 6 Nov 2009 7:02 PM
From: United States
What about the SUNOVIA ENERGY TECHNOLOGY renewable plant in Santa Domingo. What happened to that project. It would have been great for DR. New cutting edge technology. An agreement was signed between the company (SUNOVIA ENERGY TECH.) and DR
Written by: Sajomero, 6 Nov 2009 8:44 PM
From: United States, Santiago de los Caballeros
Well Xwill, that dam in Inoa will most likely be built. See the authorities are so into building new structures to get their pay off. If all our dams got some regular maintenance they would be performing really well and producing a hell of a lot more clean electricity. Instead they are been filled by millions of cubic feet of sediments and debris from all the deforested mountains. With the cost of a new dam, they could make wonders with the dams we currently have.
Written by: jcl_67, 7 Nov 2009 12:24 PM
From: Dominican Republic
All politics folks, there's big payoffs being made here, you have very powerful people who depend on blackouts so they can make money of it, remember one mans lost is another mans gain, even just by more apagones the CDEEE makes more money cause with millions of inversores recharging their batteries their electric bill goes up. when my inversor broke down on me my light bill was reduced to 800 pesos when i got it working again my bill went back up to 1350 pesos, the more apagones the more we use our inversores the higher the bill. so you see they profit from this, CDEE, which belongs to the corrupt government of ours. Also the private electric plants have to buy more fuel whether diesel, gas or gasoline, the government gets its Ca$h from the high taxes on fuel. the final point is that it's not beneficiary for the government to have 24-7 electricity. Come on you really think this can't be solved. this in 2010 (in 2 months) they don't want it solved, not now with importation down 30%
Written by: jcl_67, 7 Nov 2009 12:36 PM
From: Dominican Republic
Remember the more electricity you use the more they charge per kilowatt but it still cost them the same whether you use 1 kilowatt or 5000kilowatts. So there is more to be made by forcing us to consume more energy. Also they get their money up front cause if your a day late on your bill, guess what their ther the next day cutting your lights out. There is no excuse about people not paying their bills. It's simple like the Chinese would say "no pay, no light" (and I'm not being racist just in good humor to those sensitive individuals) So this is for our Government leaders whether it be PRD, PLD, PCRD, OR PCLA (PARTIDO CORUPTO de LAS AMERICAS) Stop playing your peoples dirty. Lets start the progress NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! GOD DAMN IT.
Written by: anthonyC, 8 Nov 2009 2:58 PM
From: United States
"Written by: allevato, 6 Nov 2009 7:02 PM
What about the SUNOVIA ENERGY TECHNOLOGY renewable plant in Santa Domingo."
Yea,
They should have been able to design, engineer, acquire the land, build and create an infrastructure for the plant in 5 months!
From: United States
FPandL Florida needs to go there
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that is unacceptable in 1st worild countries
From: United States, Chicago
time2,
that is unacceptable in 1st worild countries
_______________________________________________
My mom went with my cuban stepfather to visit cuba for a month, and they stayed at his families house and he said that the lights did not go out not one time during there stay.
So your 100% correct it is unacceptable especially going into 2010 with new technologies.
Maybe they would lose monies if the lights where 24/7 since then the hotels and big companies with generators, would then not have to buy diesel.
If the problem is generating electricity; rather than distribution...why not build a nuclear power plant. Put it offshore if teh "Isla Beata" off the coast of Barahona...or even "La Isla Saona" off the coast of Higüey.
The Angra Nuclear Facility, located at the Central Nuclear Almirante Álvaro Alberto (CNAAA) on the Itaorna Beach in Angra dos Reis, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil produces 2,007 MWe. That's almost the entire demand of the DR. BUILD a nuclear power plant and forget about the apagones...
I would not trust anyone in DR to be responsible enough to run a nuclear plant... That would be scary
From: United States, Chicago
rosa,
I would not trust anyone in DR to be responsible enough to run a nuclear plant... That would be scary
___________________________________________________________________
Yeah look how well they handle, River Dams during Tropical Storms.
We gotta start thinking like a developing country and not some Banana Republic, back water peasant workers' paradise...
most cant figure out how to use their debit cars at a cash machine....run a nuclear plant...lol
go see supermarket jose luis in puert plata..... they have elec doors one set to go in the other out...... most cant even figure this out.... how to go in and how to go out...... run a nuclear plant,,,, lol.....u make me laugh with this.....
never really been any ELEC. in this country and "THEIR NEVER WILL BE ANY"
with the high cost of college here in USA, you might as well leave her in Santiago until she finishes. I have the student loans to prove this lol...
if anyone else runs the nuclear plant then I would feel better. Look at what happened in Santiago when the water department worker opened up the dam too fast and released all of that water into Santiago...I love DR but no one follows proper procedures.
Look at the propane station that blew up a few months ago in SD
Look at the petro plant that was on fire in PR
Nuclear should only be handled by the Americans, arabs, and asians. They are most qualified
I HAVE LIVED IN MEXICO, BELIZE, ECT..... NEVER DID I EVER HAVE THE PROBLEMS WITH THE ELEC. LIKE IN THE DR......also the college i will place her in is more money no question... but its also a few STEPS UP FROM THE SCHOOLS IN SANTIAGO... and more then a FEW STEPS. UP
u know that least in most countries they dont or cant PAY 4 THEIR DEGREE like in the dr....
plenty od doctors or so called doctors and attorney PAY 4 THEIR DEGREE in the land of SMOKE AND MIRRORS...WHERE NOTHING IS REAL....drivers license dept the other day.... give me $rds3,000 and your daughter will get her license.... NEVER, NEVER, NEVER, will i or my daughter pay for this..... better i take the piece of SH===T and push his head though my windshield....if my daughter can drive WHY does she have to make a PAYOFF?.. in the land of 'SMOKE AND MIRROS"...WHERE NOTHING IS 4 REAL
look at what happened in Samana witht e ash that was dumped.
I want 24/7 power in DR but not nuclear. With the amount of sun in DR solar with batteries wil help
yes I have seen some of the books they use to teach... no one in the states uses some of the words in there... this is 2009 not 1950
hey! its not a bad thing to PAY FOR ELEC..... wish others in the dr.... would think about this instead of stealing the elec..... {I PAY IN MIAMI AND THE DR 4 THE ELEC}
ITS A GOOD THING...TO DO
as long as they dont build a dam in inoa
What about the SUNOVIA ENERGY TECHNOLOGY renewable plant in Santa Domingo."
Yea,
They should have been able to design, engineer, acquire the land, build and create an infrastructure for the plant in 5 months!