SANTO DOMINGO.- Electricity superintendent Francisco Méndez said the Dominican Government will allocate RD$1.5 billion to continue providing subsidized electricity to the poorer citizens, and looks for ways to improve the service, in the wake of a spate of recent blackouts.
The official said though the Government seeks solutions to improve service, the energy sector’s cost prevents it from supplying the total energy demand. He said the power plants are supplying 85 percent of demand, though income is only 62 percent of the billing.
Among the solutions are two planned coal-fired plants that could produce cheaper energy within 30 months, Mendez said Thursday.
The Superintendence said Thursday’s generation of 1,393 megawatt’s caused a deficit of 21 percent in the demand of 1,773 megawatts nationwide.
From: Canada
is this an example of buying something for a dollar and selling it for 75 cents and saying to your partners " Dont worry we will make it up on the volume "
Written by: Serpent, 20 Jun 2008 12:16 PM
From: Dominican Republic
I totally agree. Honestly ,2008 still third world and to point out its only about 18000 square miles of land. The world is in a nuclear era and we're stepping up to coal. What a sham..
Written by: Belial, 20 Jun 2008 12:39 PM
From: United States, Texas
The state should take over generation and distribution of energy. The inefficient and bungling bourgeoisie, both domestic and foreign, is patently unable to supply either the good (the energy) or the service (distributing the energy).
The only thing the bourgeoisie is good at is passing the buck, dodging responsibility, and shifting blame "consumers don't pay their bills" [for a service they aren't getting].
The state should exchange "subsidies" for shares of ownership in energy businesses. The energy business is too strategic to be left in the incompetent hands of bourgeois parasites and clowns.
Subsidies should be treated as state "investments' with equity rights. After all, a good part of the "subsidies" go to interest on company's debt, dividends to ravenous stockholders, exorbitant fees for useless consultants and "experts," and, of course, hallelujah executive salaries for management big shots.
The rest of the "subsidy," if any, goes to the light bill of the poor.
From: Dominican Republic
Belial, as usual, you are way off in your summation about the "Electrical problem" in the DR.
To begin with, the Electrical companies are owned by the government and there are no "stockholders" to contend with.
The government has had THREE, REPEAT THREE, proposals to build Coal-fired electrical generating plants in the DR .
One by a Chinese Company, who wanted to palm off an old, outdated Coal-fired Plant in the Monticristi area on the Northwest coast.
The second, by an Arabian Company who would build a similar Coal-fired Plant in the Southeast.
The Third was a US Company who wanted to build a modern, up to date Coal-fired Plant in the Monticristi area. This company even went to the expense of executing an Environmental Impact study, which they paid for up front.
Thus far, all three have been in limbo for the past year or so, with no action from the DR government.
Now, who do you think is at fault in not making an effort in solving the "Electrical Problems"??
TB
Written by: Belial, 21 Jun 2008 5:09 PM
From: United States, Texas
"To begin with, the Electrical companies are owned by the government and there are no "stockholders" to contend with."
0000
TB, if you're in the right, no problem with me.
I'll agree happily.
Now apply what you believe and wrote to AES subsidiary in the DR as a producer and three Spanish-owned distributors.
Aren't they "electrical companies?"
From: Dominican Republic
The real problem, Beliel, is the "Distribution Companies" , EdEste, EdNorte and EdSur which are owned and controlled by the government.
My previous statement still applies. If you're goingto blame anyone, blame the government for the deficit in both electrical production AND distribution.
They are athe ones who are holding back the expansion of theproduction facilities.
That's what you get when government gets too centralized nd powerful. something like "Ownership" of basic industries under Socialism/Comunism, wouldn't you say??
When power is concentated in just a few, everything else goes to hell in a handbasket whether it's under Capitalism, Socialism or Comunism. You start dealing with individuals within the structure who "Own" the facility and because of the power vested in them, become corrupt.
It's Human Nature.
TB
From: Afghanistan, BAF
I was under the impresion that the cause of the black outs were people stealing power I see many more 'feeders' ran off the power lines in SD and santiago than meters which are usualy on larger homes and bussinesses. I think a wind farm on one of the mountin ranges would be a big help does DR have sufficiant coal rescourses or would that be one more thing to import ?
From: Dominican Republic
pappa;
The coal will necessarily need to be imported---at last report, the gov't has a contract to buy the coal from Columbia. You can bet your bottom peso that gov't officials will profit from that agreement.
In the long run, these coal-fired plants, one from China andone from the Arab countries, will be replaced when it is seen that they will produce more unfriendly emissions than can be absorbed. The one from China is NOT State of the Art by any stretch of the imagination. Not sure about the one from the Arabs.
The gpv't is trying to "poor-boy" the solutions to the Electrical deficit but doesn't want to give up any "commissions" for instalation and production.
They'll soon find out that the Chinese are past masters at corruption and subterfuge in thier business dealings. Those are characteristics imbedded in the Chinese psyche, as the US and the rest of the world are finding out now.
Some countries just don't read and interpret History to their advantage.
TB
From: Canada
"They'll soon find out that the Chinese are past masters at corruption and subterfuge in their business dealings. Those are characteristics imbedded in the Chinese psyche, as the US and the rest of the world are finding out now.".......Truer words were never spoken.....they are sorely mistaken if they think they will get the best of a culture that was sophisticated and cosmopolitan when we were still living in caves....No matter where they go and how beaten down they are they will always rise to the top....Other races and cultures take note...Stop crying victim and get to work
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The only thing the bourgeoisie is good at is passing the buck, dodging responsibility, and shifting blame "consumers don't pay their bills" [for a service they aren't getting].
The state should exchange "subsidies" for shares of ownership in energy businesses. The energy business is too strategic to be left in the incompetent hands of bourgeois parasites and clowns.
Subsidies should be treated as state "investments' with equity rights. After all, a good part of the "subsidies" go to interest on company's debt, dividends to ravenous stockholders, exorbitant fees for useless consultants and "experts," and, of course, hallelujah executive salaries for management big shots.
The rest of the "subsidy," if any, goes to the light bill of the poor.
To begin with, the Electrical companies are owned by the government and there are no "stockholders" to contend with.
The government has had THREE, REPEAT THREE, proposals to build Coal-fired electrical generating plants in the DR .
One by a Chinese Company, who wanted to palm off an old, outdated Coal-fired Plant in the Monticristi area on the Northwest coast.
The second, by an Arabian Company who would build a similar Coal-fired Plant in the Southeast.
The Third was a US Company who wanted to build a modern, up to date Coal-fired Plant in the Monticristi area. This company even went to the expense of executing an Environmental Impact study, which they paid for up front.
Thus far, all three have been in limbo for the past year or so, with no action from the DR government.
Now, who do you think is at fault in not making an effort in solving the "Electrical Problems"??
TB
0000
TB, if you're in the right, no problem with me.
I'll agree happily.
Now apply what you believe and wrote to AES subsidiary in the DR as a producer and three Spanish-owned distributors.
Aren't they "electrical companies?"
My previous statement still applies. If you're goingto blame anyone, blame the government for the deficit in both electrical production AND distribution.
They are athe ones who are holding back the expansion of theproduction facilities.
That's what you get when government gets too centralized nd powerful. something like "Ownership" of basic industries under Socialism/Comunism, wouldn't you say??
When power is concentated in just a few, everything else goes to hell in a handbasket whether it's under Capitalism, Socialism or Comunism. You start dealing with individuals within the structure who "Own" the facility and because of the power vested in them, become corrupt.
It's Human Nature.
TB
The coal will necessarily need to be imported---at last report, the gov't has a contract to buy the coal from Columbia. You can bet your bottom peso that gov't officials will profit from that agreement.
In the long run, these coal-fired plants, one from China andone from the Arab countries, will be replaced when it is seen that they will produce more unfriendly emissions than can be absorbed. The one from China is NOT State of the Art by any stretch of the imagination. Not sure about the one from the Arabs.
The gpv't is trying to "poor-boy" the solutions to the Electrical deficit but doesn't want to give up any "commissions" for instalation and production.
They'll soon find out that the Chinese are past masters at corruption and subterfuge in thier business dealings. Those are characteristics imbedded in the Chinese psyche, as the US and the rest of the world are finding out now.
Some countries just don't read and interpret History to their advantage.
TB