Dominican wind, solar energy potential is more than 10,000 MW, official says

Wind energy, lengthy debate, slow to materialize.

Interviewed in the program Diario Libre A.M., the official said non-conventional energy projects are important because they eliminate the dependency on imported fuels and produce clean energy.

Fernandez said there are requests for approval of projects of more than 2,000 megawatts with investments surpassing 3.0 billion dollars. He said the first concessions of 215 megawatts, one a Dutch and one Spanish company, were already approved.

He said those plants would be built in Baní (south), another in Montecristi province (northwest) and a third in the community Los Guzmancitos, in Puerto Plata (north), areas which have the highest potential to install those wind plants.

He said the country could supply electrical energy to the neighboring islands of the Caribbean with the wind and solar energy parks which can be installed in the country.

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