President Luis Abinader led the inauguration of the sixth photovoltaic plant in San Cristóbal, the Empresa Generadora de Electricidad Haina, EGE Haina, located in the Yaguate municipality.
Abinader highlighted that this work occupies a total area of 220 hectares, with an installed capacity to generate up to 120 megawatts, which annually reach an estimated generation of 240,000 megawatts/hour.
This is equivalent to the annual consumption of more than 100,000 Dominican households.
“Something extremely important and necessary in our country after so many years of erratic management with regard to the production and distribution of electricity nationwide,” said the president.
Luis Mejía Brache, general manager of EGE Haina, explained that Girasol will avoid the emission into the atmosphere of 150,000 tons of CO2 annually and the import of 400,000 barrels of oil, which contributes to mitigating the effects of climate change and represents savings in terms of currency, respectively.
It uses a modern system of solar position trackers or “trackers”, unique in the country, that rotate 104 degrees throughout twelve hours a day, depending on the solar displacement to guarantee better use of irradiation, which translates in an increase of its effective capacity.
The Sunflower Solar Park.
With this new project, EGE Haina reached a joint installed renewable energy capacity of 300 MW, from its wind and solar plants.
In just ten years, EGE Haina has gone from operating 100% thermal power plants to a renewed and diversified matrix whose production is currently 65% clean based on renewables and natural gas.
With an investment of around 100 million dollars, Girasol was built in a period of 14 months and generated jobs at the local level. A total of 820 people worked on the development of this photovoltaic plant.
The president was accompanied at the main table by Messrs. Felipe Vicini, CEO of Inicia; Leonel Melo, Chairman of the Board of Directors of EGE Haina; Eduardo Estrella, president of the Senate of the Republic; Alfredo Pacheco, president of the Chamber of Deputies; Antonio Almonte, Minister of Energy and Mines; José Florentino, president of the Patrimonial Fund for Reformed Companies (FONPER); Rafael Velazco, superintendent of Electricity, and Edward Veras, executive director of the National Energy Commission.
Source:
Diario Libre
