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Santo Domingo.- The State Electric Utility Thursday reports that a power transformer’s failure has taken the national grid’s biggest power plants offline, which has led to a halt in service in upscale sectors not prone to interruptions.
The AES Andres natural gas-fired facility with 300 megawatt output went offline at 3:34am, as technicians were forced to shut down two of the five plants at Los Mina, generating only 20 of its total capacity of 85 MW each.
In a statement, the Utility said the Edemar power plants were also ordered to gradually switch fuels from natural gas to fuel oil # 6, to prevent it an overload of its units. “The gas terminal subsequently resumed operations with backup power.”
“The situation has increased the electrical system’s vulnerability, causing disruptions outside the normal programming of energy distribution, affecting 16 circuits of Edesur, 8 Edeeste and 12 Edenorte,” the CDEEE said.
It adds that as of 9am the Los Mina plants had increased output to as high as 74 MW, and the system supplied 76 percent of the demand.
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There are many problems that we face that are difficult to resolve. This is not one of them.
Make everyone pay for the electricity that they use and all the problems regarding electricity will disappear.
As long as the governement has neither the will nor the desire to make people pay for the electricity that we use this will always be a problem.
What an easy answer.
MAKE EVERYONE PAY FOR THE ELECTRICITY THAT THEY USE.
I pay all bills, every month. I do not steal services, I even pay for water, once a week, but th power cuts are always here, never in the richer parts of LR.
Mr. President, kick out government employees or officials who do not perform, do not follow the ex president, who just gave them another position, like the minister of education/womens affairs, or more money, like the ex -executive of the CDEEE. The present exec. is stealing too!