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Santo Domingo.- The electricity service crumbled in the capital and the interior Thursday , leaving even upscale sectors of the National District without power for several hours.
The Edesur electricity distribution blamed the blackouts on low generation, but affirmed that the service is expected to return to normal Friday afternoon.
The electrical system had 451 megawatts available Friday morning, for a demand exceeding 1,500. At 9am there were 12 plants offline, 15 operating and 9 with only partial output of a total of 36.
Several National District sectors had no power most of yesterday, including upper class neighborhoods.
Scheduled
The country’s power companies grouped in ADIE said though it wouldn’t get into "bickering" with Edesur, those blackouts have been scheduled since 2004, and that it’s up to the Integrated Electricity System’s (SENI) coordinator to decide which plants remain on line.
"The coordinating system is the one which authorizes the entry of the plants," said ADIE vice president Milton Morrison.
For its part, the SENI said yesterday's blackout stemmed from outages of the plants AES Andres (maintenance), Itabo 1 (boiler leak), and San Felipe (fuel), whose output plunged 180 MW to 74 MW.
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Blackouts in one area But Light and Transperancy in another:
Nuria Piera to head CDN TV station
Award-winning investigative journalist Nuria Piera has signed on to direct CDN, Channel 37. Her company Provideo signed a strategic alliance with the television station. Juan Cohen signed for the station. Piera said that her company would direct and produce the station's news services. Her Channel 9 Saturday 9pm TV show is already being televised on Mondays in a repeat on CDN and she said will continue to appear on Channel 9 and on Mondays at 8pm on CDN. The show has aired with high ratings since its launch on 17 January 1987.
Piera announced the new format would air in late February or early March. "We are going to strengthen the already existing structure," she said. She replaces Osvaldo Santana, a highly regarded newspaper journalist, as reported in El Caribe, of the same media group.
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The PLD Narcos must be Shitting Bricks!
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Ha ha!
Duminicans don't plan ahead any further than the weekend.
Get used to the black-outs folks, they are only going to increase, I'll bet my left testicle on it.
While Dominicans don't have electricity, the government is spending RD$1.04 billion in health care for Haitians illegals.
Why not use my tax money to give Dominicans electricity??
Or, to deport those illegals and build a fence on the border??
EXPEL ALL ILLEGAL HAITIANS FROM QUISQUEYA !!!
QUE VIVA TRUJILLO !!!
Lie-onel and the PLD make us Number ONE!
"The Dominican Republic is number 1 in Latin America and the Carribean in power outages!"
Read the rest at:
RD, país de AL y el Caribe con más apagones
Al mes ocurren 17.7 cortes, siete veces más que la media de 2.5
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Thank you Do Nothing Narco Lie-onel!
The government spends RD$1.04 Billion pesos, on Haitian illegals health care.
How many Dominicans are in need of that money?
How many Dominican would benefit if that money is spent on education?
How many Dominicans would benefit if that money is spent on their health care??
How many Dominicans would put food on their tables ??
How many bridges would be build in DR??
How many roads paved??
How many schools build??
How many houses build??
How many hospitals ??
How many Kilo Watt of energy produced??
How many dams build??
How many canals for irrigation??
How many docks??
These are the kind of thing some people don't want to understand.
The Dominican Republic is a very poor country.
We cannot have the luxury of spending that kind of money on the health care of illegal Haitians, while our own people are in need of those funds.
EXPEL THOSE ILLEGALS HAITIANS FROM QUISQUEYA !!!!!
VIVA TRUJILLO MOLINA
advises
"The government spends RD$1.04 Billion pesos, on Haitian illegals health care."
Where did you get this from?
Maybe you can tell us what the government spends on a useless military and the cost of Leo and his entourage's jaunts around the world?
Also advise where the Duminican Republic would be without cheep Haitian labor.
Here are your answers
The numbers where published by Dominican Today.
The tax payers money is not for Leonel and his thugs to fill their pocket.
But it is not to be spent on Haitian illegal immigrant's either.
Dominican tax payer's money is to be invested in the well being of Dominicans.
DR would be in the same coordinates, it has been for thousands of years.
The Dominican Republic is a very poor country.
We cannot have the luxury of spending that kind of money on the health care of illegal Haitians, while our own people are in need of those funds.
EXPEL THOSE ILLEGALS HAITIANS FROM QUISQUEYA !!!!!
I would also like to to the cost to the Duminican taxpayers, Margarita's publicity stunt with the Boca Chica Siamese twins, and if they are still alive.