Almonte: the only way for the Dominican Republic is to promote renewable energies

This MEM release was published using machine translation.

The Minister of Energy and Mines, Antonio Almonte, affirmed this Wednesday that the only way that the Dominican Republic has to counteract the fuel crisis in the international market is by stimulating and promoting the production of renewable energies.

The engineer Almonte expressed himself in those terms when he headed, together with the vice president of the EDE Unified Council, Andrés Astacio, the signing of three agreements for the purchase and sale of renewable energies, for the injection of 128 more megawatts of clean energy with an investment more than 197 million dollars.

While thanking the facilities, investors highlighted the levels of transparency and speed with which these contracts for the purchase and sale of renewable energy in projects to be installed in the eastern part of the country were evaluated and approved.

Minister Almonte said that the main threat to the country from an economic and eventually social point of view is the price of fuel, since the nation depends absolutely on primary sources of energy, which has to be imported from abroad. .

Almonte considered that the authorities of the Dominican electricity sector are committed to continue promoting the production of renewable energies such as photovoltaic and solar, which do not depend on imports, but on the wind and the sun.

“These moments of crisis, mainly fuel, due to the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, make us stimulate new clean energy projects every day, in this case the sun, wind, biomass, among others, so as not to continue depending on imports. », he highlighted.

Engineer Almonte stressed that President Luis Abinader's commitment in energy matters has been to continue promoting electricity production from clean sources to eventually achieve energy autonomy.

Likewise, the vice president of the EDE Unified Council, Andrés Astacio, emphasized the importance of signing these contracts for energy from clean sources, noting that the current administration has assumed an energy policy based on the production of renewables.

The contracts were signed for the purchase and sale of solar energy and biomass with the generating companies Biomass Freezing Plant San Pedro BioEnergy, of 35 MWn (with an investment of US$120 million); Parque Solar Martí «Tropigas», of 43 MWn (for US$40,130,729.90), and Parque Energy Solar del Este Cabreto l «Urbasolar», of 50 MWn, for a total of 128 megawatts of clean energy (with an investment of US$37 million). ).

Also present at the activity were Edward Verás, director of the National Energy Commission, Rafael Gómez, deputy minister of Energy, as well as several members of the EDE Unified Council.

While for the electrical firms were Ricardo Alegría, representative of San Pedro BioEnergy Biomass Freezing Plant; Carlos Martí Garden, from the Martí Tropigas Solar Park and Mathieu Buono, from the Energy Solar Park of Este Cabreto l «Urbasolar».

When speaking, the three thanked the facilities and the levels of transparency with which the authorities acted until reaching the conclusion of the three agreements.