Saturday, June 9, 2012

ARTICLE - SITUATION AT EDH

THE SITUATION AT EDH
(Haiti Libre) -

At the second Council of Government, held on Wednesday, June 6 at the Primature, the engineer Garry Valdemar, Director General of Electricity of Haiti (EDH) presented a state of the situation, and emphasized the necessity for the Haitian government, to find an effective formula to encourage subscribers to pay their bills regularly. He announced new projects to improve the power grid, damaged by natural and human factors.

"...it is necessary that we enter enough money to make the maintenance operations, and the development of grid. The metropolitan network that we have was renovated in the mid-80's [...], which means that we currently have poles that are rotten, cables that are not in good condition, this is what makes a supply that can never be continuous [...] we do not have the capacity to transmit electricity to transport it and distribute it properly...

[...] At the production level, we have a project to rehabilitate Péligre. We have already signed the contract, but the work has not started yet. Work will probably start in September [...] the firm Alstom-Comelex who won the tender is making administrative formalities with the lenders [...] they are making a recruitment for the site also.

I talked to you of the rehabilitation of 3 circuits that are at the level of Pétion ville [...] on the other hand, there are major problems at Carrefour [an EDH plant], which has a group of 10 Mw down. We have disbursed the funds and repairs are currently underway. By August, we think we will have back 6 Mw of power on the grid..."

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