Santo Domingo.- AES Dominicana said it maintains a contribution of nearly 400 megawatts to the National Interconnected Electric System (SENI) in peak hours, or 35 percent of all energy that is produced actually but the company hasn’t received yet any payment for the accumulated debt of US$184 million for nearly four months of energy produced.

It said the current accumulated debt of US$184 million of the government with the group AES Dominicana makes it untenable that it can hold all its generating plants in operation, given the lack of resources to cover operational costs.

"AES Dominicana has been holding frequent meetings with the authorities of both the Government and distributors but the payments for the debt had been minimal," said in a statement.

The power company said that the energy they produce through their units based on natural gas and coal, which had been supplying 40 percent of the energy consumed on a permanent basis "are the most competitive prices and greater efficiency in the entire system," because in addition to "the production units are key to providing other supplementary services to the system as the regulation of frequency which contributes effectively to there’re no general blackouts of previous years."