Dominican Republic

Spanish renewables designers Dominion Energy SL and its associate Bas Projects Corporation SL provided over the weekend their 50-MW solar farm that they have actually been building for the past year in the Dominican Republic.

The Dominican Republic's nationwide energy commission (CNE) has actually granted conclusive giving ins for two solar photovoltaic or pv (PV) projects guaranteeing some 93 MW/105.72 MWp of brand-new capability, it announced in a collection of press releases recently.

The Dominican Republic's nationwide energy commission has just recently provided provisionary concessions to 3 solar photovoltaic (PV) projects promising some 147 MWp of brand-new capacity.

Dominican power producer Empresa Generadora de Electricidad Haina SA (EGE Haina) on Friday inaugurated its 120-MW Girasol solar farm in the home nation.

MPC Caribbean Clean Energy Fund LLC, part of German asset management group MPC Capital AG (ETR: MPCK) and also its Caribbean financial investment operations, has authorized an agreement to acquire a portion of a 33.4-MWp operating solar farm in the Dominican Republic.

AES Dominicana, part of US power generation team AES Corp (NYSE: AES), on Thursday inaugurated a 50-MW solar farm in the Dominican Republic.

AES Dominicana has broken ground on a 58MW solar plant in the Dominican Republic, which is now being built by Spain's TSK Electricidad y Electronica.

In the early years of the 21st century, distributed generation systems in Latin America were mainly installed off-grid in remote rural areas, writes Maria Chea, solar analyst at IHS Markit. As the El Niño phenomenon and high oil prices continued to exacerbate high electricity prices and power shortages, governments began to turn their attention to distributed generation, including PV systems, to assuage strains on their national grid networks.