Of the 103 power plants generators of electricity Of the 62 in the country, 62 were not fully available yesterday. This number represents 60% of the total, which indicates that the National Interconnected Electric System (SENI) has not been able to operate at full capacity at a time when the consumption electrical increases due to heat.
The data, contained in the daily report of the SENI Coordinating Body (OC), detail that, of the total number of plants out of operation, 42 were partially unavailable due to maintenance either faults techniques, while 20 were unavailable, that is, they did not generate energy.
The hydroelectricwhich should be a constant source of energy clean, have the highest level of inactivity. Of the 42 power plants that produce energy From water, 32 were inactive, making this generation source the one with the most faults in the system. According to the Coordinating Body, the plants generators Partially out of service plants have a real maximum availability of 1,948.37 megawatts (MW), approximately 39.42% of the 4,942.38 megawatts produced in real time across all plants.
By breaking down the information by generation source, it can be observed that the energy thermal and the renewable concentrated the largest amount of megawatts available as of yesterday. “The availability data presented corresponds to the maximum availability of the plant for the selected day,” the report indicates.
The data for the day are preliminaries and it is update definitively in the morning of the following day, so today they could enter the system some of the plants that were partially outside, which correspond to 17 hydroelectric10 renewable and 15 thermal.
Report by company
The Electric Generation Company Catalina Point supplies 21.8% of the demand with its two generation units. It is followed by EGE Haina with 11.5%, AES Andrés with 8%, and the San Pedro de MacorÃs Electricity Company (CESPM) with 7.8%.
The Northern Electricity Distribution Company (Edenorte) reported having some plants in maintenance corrective for yesterday, Edeeste highlighted a process of protection from the distribution team.
While Edesur Dominicana was the one that presented the greatest problems: overload of the system of distribution, maintenance corrective, maintenance scheduled, transmission output and protection of transmission equipment.
In August of this year, the maximum demand of the electrical system was 3,690.65 megawatts of power, for an increase of 7.8% compared to the same month in 2023, when it was 3,422.69 megawatts. This is a growth trend that has been observed since July, when a maximum demand of 3,607.86 megawatts was recorded, 167.06 additional to the 3,440.80 megawatts of July last year, for an increase of 4.8%, according to the Ministry of Energy and Mines (MEM). To meet the demand, Joel Santos specified that the government has supported key reforms aimed at diversifying the generation matrix, and increasing the generation available under competitive contracting schemes. “In the future, we are working on several generation projects, both for energy from conventional power plants and renewable energies,” the minister said yesterday in a press release. As an example, he cited the combined cycle plant of the EnergÃa 2000 group, which is being built in Pepillo Salcedo, Montecristi, which would contribute 414 megawatts to the grid, scheduled to begin testing in the first quarter of 2025 and connect to the system next year.
