Boca Chica.- The Minister of Energy and Mines, Joel Santos, along with members of the Electrical Cabinet, led the first supervisory visit to the construction process of the Generadora San Felipe I project, located in Andrés, in this municipality of Santo Domingo province.
He indicated that the plant will have 467 megawatts (MW) of installed capacity and is expected to begin operations between April and May 2027. The project will also have a latest generation gas turbine from General Electric (GE), considered the largest and most efficient in Central America and the Caribbean Santos stated that the generator will contribute to the creation of more than 650 jobs, with an investment during its construction of more than US$700 million and an injection of clean energy.
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In this regard, the minister recalled that the project, along with other generation plants, is a demonstration of the government’s commitment to expand the national generation park by 2028, to make the electrical system increasingly stronger and more resilient.
For their part, Javier Tejada, Héctor Rizek and Edgar Pichardo, partners in the project, valued as positive and of high importance the support that President Luis Abinader, through the Electrical Cabinet and Minister Joel Santos, has provided for the development of the aforementioned electrical work.
“We are deeply grateful as a company; first, to the President of the Republic, the Electrical Cabinet and all other authorities. And I want to tell you that you planted a small seed a year ago, with a bidding process that, by all accounts, is qualified as one of the best international public bidding processes for energy purchases carried out in the Dominican Republic”, valued Javier Tejada.
On the matter, the Superintendent of Electricity, Andrés Astacio, indicated that Generadora San Felipe I, “is one of the anchor projects that is part of the government strategy, with more than 460 megawatts of very high efficiency for the electrical system and, from what we have been able to see, it is meeting all the planned criteria, so we feel very positive about its development.”
Meanwhile, the executive director of the National Energy Commission, Edward Veras, said that the San Felipe plant will help double the energy capacity by the next decade.
“If we aim to double the national economy, we also need to double the energy supply, with cheap generation, which allows distribution companies to lower their average future purchase price by three to four cents, which will allow the population to continue to have guaranteed access to energy,” he pointed out.
