Dominican Republic - Radical energy transition | Global Ideas

[@Cooyah888]

I love this! Great job DR 🇩🇴. One Caribbean and One Love from Jamaica 🇯🇲.

[@enriquevasquez9600]

Thank you for kind words! Greetings from The Dominican Republic.

[@mzee5533]

Africans are complaining of being mistreated and racist by your DR people

[@josecampechano6136]

@@mzee5533 Africans? you mean haitians!!!! yes haitians have a history of mistreat by the entired region. including the united states.

[@josejairo3465]

@@mzee5533 the DR is a poor country on its own. We cannot fix or help everyone that smuggles themselves over here.

[@tulio5990]

@@mzee5533 Most Dominicans Are of African descent, and a whole bunch of Dominicans are descendants from Haitians whom occupied the DR territory for 20 years1822-1844 before it's foundation.

[@espvp]

Proud to see this on international news. Is worth mentioning that some of the renewable energy comes from dams, in fact here in the DR we have the highest capacity water dam in the Caribbean. Oh and that Punta Catalina coal power plant mentioned in the video was widely frown upon here when being constructed.

[@satyabratanayak4974]

Good to see people getting access of electricity and internet, now those people can know a lot more about world.

[@satyabratanayak4974]

@gaming site That's true. Also It depends on individual how you will use internet.

[@edgarasvas]

Internet? People lived pretty good by their standarts. Now they will realise in what hole they live. More suicides, alcoholics, mass demonstrations and so on. Total colapse

[@BubblewrapHighway]

STUDY FUNGUS! 🍄

[@Crabdossermagnet]

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[@Thatthing1234]

@@edgarasvas oh yeah more people who think they know what's best for my country do go on🙄. Narcissist ignorance

[@knowthyself8233]

Good job DR from 🇭🇹

[@user-kr7pw7yc2n]

Thanks, I hope things improve there in haiti

[@radhameguzmaneapinal8541]

No somos de Haití, somos muy diferentes OK..

[@chulo201]

​@@radhameguzmaneapinal8541Aprende ingles

[@georgefeliz7875]

It's comforting to see some effort from people so far away like Germany! I wish more nations joining to help poor countries like my beloved Dominican republic. Hopefully they'll do the same with other poor countries like Haity. God bless them!

[@alfredogonzalez1280]

DW should have mentioned the need of battery packs to stabilize the grid and provide solar-produced electricity at night.

[@Brandon_letsgo]

There is no such thing. There is no grid scale battery.

[@emuriddle9364]

I've learned that with my own experience, owning solar panels.

[@meerkathero6032]

The minigrids do run on battery energy storage systems (BESS) during night or on a backup diesel genset. Regarding the whole island grid the share of wind and solar PV is not yet high enough to utilize a BESS in a meaningfull way (it is not needed under a certain treshold value, which is basically the baselod and above, depending on the infrastructure, loadcurve and geration capacities). However, this will change soon and storage will be an essential part of the system. Lucas P might not know that grid scale BESS's are installed already in several countries and do stabilize the grid to an extend that without the BESS the grid would be in very serious trouble.

[@Brandon_letsgo]

@@meerkathero6032 Batteries will never powered the world since they generate no electricity.

[@meerkathero6032]

@@Brandon_letsgo Grid scale stands not for generator. It just describes the scale and that it is connected to the grid. In the energy sector we call a BESS with, e.g. 100 MW / 500 MWh utility scale due to its size. The same applies for any other kind of energy storage like the 100 years old pumped hydro. Storage has an important function to balance load and generation, even more in grid's with a high penetration of fluctuating generation like solar and wind.

[@sheshatheblackqueen]

Dominican republic is one of the country my list to visit 😁

[@MBB563]

It's a humble place. very poor but the people are extremely polite and love foreigners. You rarely get robbed or swindled. Rent a car and go anywhere, lovely country.

[@ericgonzalez3641]

@@MBB563 I agree with you in everything except in "very poor", we have poverty, yes, but we are not very poor, around 23% of the population lives in poverty, that's not very poor, in some countries of Central America is the double or the triple, but we're not a very poor country.

[@nonologylol]

@@ericgonzalez3641 yes we are poor look at that lady's house and no electricity or washing machine be real

[@ericgonzalez3641]

@@nonologylol So because she doesn´t have electricity or washing machine, all the Dominican population is poor?

[@jaysantiago5737]

I don't recommend

[@elvist2810]

I'm dominican, I live here in the island. Makes me proud to see this.

[@turboprickle]

Congratulations to DW on a quality production with this video.

[@guy7gsa]

Love it , more videos like this please DW

[@TheRustyLM]

Some important details are left out of this feel good story. Storage? Power at night, low winds? A few days of rain means no solar? Hurricanes will wreak total havoc on those million dollar wind farms. These Green NGOs will not have any $€£ to get power back up very timely after a hurricane season. Folks will probably adjust to periodic blackouts, something developed countries won’t tolerate.

[@ulisesjorge]

4:26 "...the wind is a powerful force in the Caribbean, specially during hurricane season..."

[@pedro101783]

It’s so good to see my beautiful country moving in the right path and giving a great example to the neighboring countries.

[@ivla871]

Isn't it amazing?

[@ivla871]

@Faux Que as soon as the travel restrictions are lifted . How about you? When will you return to yours?

[@ivla871]

​@Faux Que Are you? Clearly some people's delicate nature gets rattled up easily when others have multiple homes.

[@ivla871]

@Faux Que Hahah.Thanks, but I am a home owner in multiple places. How frustrating it must be to want to play "home police" for other people and not be able to.

[@ivla871]

@Faux Que This was a positive video, with a positive message, with positive comments. Yet, the abundance you supposedly have is not enough to heal you from your need to brag about it(As if anybody asked or cares ) or from your need to dump your toxic personality on a Utube public forum t o strangers. Perhaps" home" is the source of your toxicity. Perhaps you are spending too much time at home. Consider relocating changing the atmosphere for a bit. I heard plenty of Europeans and Canadians are relocating to DR....have a good one ; )

[@thehiker_7860]

This is how you develop a country

[@marwanshamsia]

Slap down a bunch of solar panels just like minecraft.

[@sabin97]

los dominicanos tienen una ventaja curiosa. como la red electrica es tan mala que no cubre a muchas areas del pais, pueden empezar con energias renovables en esas areas. y la inversion que hagan sera una ganancia neta. es mejor tener electricidad solo 80% del tiempo(presumiendo que los paneles y turbinas sean insuficientes) que no tener electricidad nunca.

[@deleond1]

Dominicano Presente

[@tavroaar8173]

Pero también a mejorado bastante el sistema eléctrico también. Ya tenemos muchos áreas de producción de energía de turbina en el sur y en el norte.

[@pinkelephants1421]

No mention of battery storage which I found really strange. As for the village featured, no longer being solely reliant on biomass for energy, should mean the possibility of a certain amount of reforestation is a feasible prospect & long term, should help to improve water supplies and agricultural outputs.

[@MrMakabar]

Storage is not needed that much as just having power for a few hours improves life a lot. alos many things have batteries in them anyway, like mobile phones.

[@pinkelephants1421]

@@MrMakabar Initially, I think that you're probably correct. But as people's living standards improve, so does their desire for flexible access to electricity. TV, IT equipment, electric hobs & ovens etc, etc. For after dark access to solar energy, 🔋 storage is a must.

[@MrMakabar]

@@pinkelephants1421 You can just connect the village to the national grid.

[@pinkelephants1421]

@@MrMakabar But there IS no national grid in this remote rural area; that is the whole point of solar installation in the 1st place. Did you not understand the underlying premise of the video? It's to expensive & uneconomical to extend the grid to areas such as these and that's why rural solar plus battery storage is making considerable headway around the world in rural communities. It's enabling poorer nations to skip the capital intensive infrastructure build out of national energy grids, favouring instead a distributed grid renewables based option which is far more efficient anyway in terms of reduced electricity losses via long transmission lines.

[@Jrod110]

Reforestation has been a thing in DR for decades, I believe they made it illegal to chop any trees down without permission from The Government since like the 80s

[@rogerwilco2]

Solar power and star link internet can make a big change in remote places. But people need to be taught to maintain and repair such tools as well. Without it, it's not going to help.

[@osterlaich6395]

True but with access to the internet one can learn any skillset.

[@ironman8257]

@Josef K With this argumentation it definitely applies to you

[@Mp57navy]

@@osterlaich6395 Well, yeah, Starlink should donate some receivers here and there. I literally ordered one for the lolz, even tho I have gigabit internet, just so I have internet in my summer cabin out in the country.

[@osterlaich6395]

@@Mp57navy a buy two get one scheme would be nice wouldn't it? 😊 The more people are connected to the interwebs the better.

[@vsiegel]

@Angelwing Nipple But not between rural areas and cities.

[@Pat10Ireland]

DW does some of the best journalism today. Keep it up, great story!

[@erfanrahmani]

Rare good news, nice to see this types of positive shifts.

[@Someone-ji2gm]

Saying this as a Dominican, knowing our countries corruption that power is going straight to the cities and the small towns and cities will still get rolling blackouts

[@Beeeeeeeeeee]

It "should" lessen those as well, as they won't need to shut off parts of the grid to supply other parts, as those other parts have a more reliable supply now.

[@theethicalhacker7271]

Everybodies moving to the city then 😂 I understand what you mean tho

[@tavroaar8173]

But there is more permanent electricity now then there was 10 years ago and more streets with illumination. The country has improved.

[@DNyCe36]

I love my country. Look at how gorgeous those rolling mountains are 0:20

[@paolagomez1483]

most of them presented in the video are areas where illegal Haitian emigrants live are not Dominicans 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️👎👎

[@axelcosta5821]

deportacion ahora ya

[@nonologylol]

Nope, there is poverty all over the country (I'm Dominican)

[@nonologylol]

@@axelcosta5821 You are evil. We need to be more compassionate with our neighbors Haiti (I'm Dominican) Eres malo seamos mas compasivos con nuestros hermanos Haitianos (Soy Dominicana)

[@axelcosta5821]

@@nonologylol y que asemos

[@tregua24]

@@nonologylol We can be any more compassionate, they are taking over the entire country.

[@Bartolo.Gonzalez]

Dominican Republic: The SENI energy supply in the country is:. 👉 43% with natural gas, 👉 38% with coal, 👉 7% hydraulic, 👉 6% with Fuel Oil No. 6, 👉 3% wind, 👉 2% is solar and only 👉 1% is biomass As scheduled for July 26, 2021 by the National Interconnected Electric System (SENI).

[@realvanman1]

Much better to have a decentralized power system where there is still a grid connecting all of the individual users, but each user also has his own solar and or wind generation, as well as storage. The grid is thereby only carrying but a small amount of power as some need more than they generate and others have a surplus to sell, and everyone is capable of basic autonomous operation in the event of a grid failure.

[@savagecub]

How many guards do they have to post in order to keep the locals from stealing those panels ?

[@munnabhaimbbs4071]

Good initiative if it goes in grid ..off grid will need battery storage thats pretty expensive .Wind Energy seems more reliable...

[@NoHandleToSpeakOf]

Unmanageable generation can be balanced out with manageable load that grid operator can control. Many island grids employ this technique.

[@Yudith613]

They are helping Haitians in Dominican land.

[@osterlaich6395]

Cool. How do they solve the storing problem? Battery banks in houses? Are there contingents of energy per household? I like the idea starting the energy revolution with those who don't have energy yet seems a good way of going about it.

[@geogmz8277]

In DR is common to have Power Inverters in the houses with 2-8 batteries.. Due to how unreliable the current system is.. So yeah since almost everyone already have power inverters with batteries.. Storing is not much of an issue.. At least at residential levels.

[@danieldelpeus]

Good job DR l'm from 🇭🇹

[@nonologylol]

Hello friend, I hope Haiti gets prosperous too. I'm Dominican and wish the best for Haiti and the world :)

[@AmerBoyo]

We need more of this, bring the power to the people 😅 ⚡️

[@H3erobrineNotch]

Public projects like solar and internet access can increase their country’s GDP

[@H3erobrineNotch]

Satellite internet like star link is the most practical for rural areas.

[@jeffgilleese6332]

So these poor people will be made to pay a fee for the solar power plant? Does that include the cost of security to prevent theft from the solar power plant? Sounds to me like they can't afford the power station.

[@ideeyes4054]

Getting electricity will help them save money on some areas. Like that woman gets much more time to do other things if she gets a washing machine to wash clothes. No need to buy candles or lamp oil or something for ligting etc

[@GraceMusyoka]

Your thinking is very convoluted. It is as if you have no reason or sense. Much of the world lives in a cooperative model Why do you assume this would lead to theft or they cannot afford a guard? Gosh, I can't help you or even try to reason with you, just to point out how ignorant and presumptive you are.

[@luisbaez8730]

Great job and great reporting well done thanks

[@DCampusano1]

More countries should definitely be doing this. Kudos to DR for taking a step in the right direction ♻️

[@DrawdeThePotato]

Hahahahahahahahaahahaa 90% of the people they show where ilegal Haití inmigrant, they picture Dominican Republic as some kind of African country. hahahahahahahHhahah

[@dinzey1240]

How do you know they are ilegal? Is it distintive somewhere? And by the way... that is a very common rural mountain village in DR

[@lionheart2049]

@@dinzey1240 how do you know this is a common rural mountain village? Is that where you're from?

[@dinzey1240]

@@lionheart2049 Yes i am. I am an enviromental and energy consultant. Villages with those characteristics are located in the poorest providences of the country, which yes... are located near the border with Haiti. Now on other providences, closer to the capital city or major providences, the view changes and the villages are more developped.

[@yazuki1185]

@@dinzey1240 It's difficult for haitians to be legal even if they got all the requirements, since they government doesn't provide them a birth act. there was a famous singer in DR from haiti who just got his nationality because of that problem, now imagine a poor person

[@dinzey1240]

@@yazuki1185 Mmmm. Not accurate. If you read the law, it says if both of you parents are illegal inmigrants when you were born in DR then you are able to get residency and after an X amount of years you can apply to be a citizen. Meanwhile you get a certificate that says you were born in the country but you are not a national. Now, as i understand, the problem is with the Hatian Goverment. While the DR created a regulation plan with DR tax money, it decided to accept any documentation of legal value that proved who you were in Haiti, current or expired, in orden to assist in creating a pathway to DR citizenship, the Hatian authorities charged for the emission of those documents and then did not deliver them. Ergo, if the DR could not account who they were in their country of origin, it did not have the information to offer a legal document in DR and as a consequence their children born in DR could not get a proper birth certificate. Most of the people in that situation, did not have last names or recolections of day of birth and year nor their parents full name... so... that did complicate things. And that is the reason the problem persists. I do have to agree with you fully on something, when you have financial resources, problems are easily managed.

[@cobrapatrol]

looks great DW should run on solar panels too.

[@Gentejode]

the poorest part of DR are the parts closest to haiti

[@nonologylol]

Nope, there is a lot of poverty all over the country (I'm Dominican)

[@Gentejode]

@@nonologylol im dominican too, but im talking about the poorest parts

[@chuckkottke]

This is good news! I wish they would install more buffering capacity at the solar and wind production facilities to smooth out irregularities in power production. Banks of supercapacitors could store the surges quickly and release the power evenly, making wind and solar more manageable in the central control facility.🌞

[@hilaryjimenez1444]

Now let's work on our solid waste management

[@luisfred17]

Thank you DW for this story

[@juanasenjo8515]

As a Dominican, I'm extremely happy and hopeful that in a decade or two, with the help of international agencies, we may just become energy self-sufficient. The DR is a very poor nation, there's no way to pay for carbon-based power generation to sustain a growing economy. I celebrate and applaud this effort by the Germans, et al.

[@Snoy_Fly]

As a Dominican I can tell you the DR does not need handouts.

[@juanasenjo8515]

@@Snoy_Fly We can use every "handout" we can get. We especially need a boost in electricity output to meet public and industrial demands. The more power generated, the more it'll attract foreign investments, the greater the GNP. More power to the people, in more ways than one.!

[@tavroaar8173]

The DR is a rich country just very badly administered. The amount of money stolen from corruption is incredible.

[@juanasenjo8515]

@@tavroaar8173 The DR has had a run of increasing GDP since the late '80s but has not trickled down to the poorer 80%. The gap between rich and poor has been ever-widening. The middle class has grown somewhat but not at a pace relative to income. Yes, corruption has played a major part in retarding its progress, exactly why any and every international effort to improve our lot is essential to a better future.

[@DCampusano1]

@@tavroaar8173 badly *administrated*

[@hispanicuscorpus]

i could tell you. my home town has not see power outage for a list a year now

[@DynamicHaze]

Look at all those Haitians

[@90skid97]

I mean if you have endless abundant sun, why not use it, specially if it helps rural populations litterally out of the dark ages

[@DrawdeThePotato]

Just to let you know, they are like that because they don't want anything to do politics/city bullsheet and since young were raised without up-to-date education and there are not many places that hire illiterate people sadly. But don't worry even with all corruption there is always some one how want a change sadly there are not many of them, this is a problem every country have and we are not exemption. Just take this video with a grain of salt since this is most likely a political move bullsheet i write at the beginning (am not blaming the channel but the company that supposedly it's going for renewal energy).

[@DrawdeThePotato]

If you want to see the supposedly grow of a country you need to follow the money. Search on Google "Dollar to Peso Dominicano" and then look at the devaluation graph 📈 since 2000

[@idontfukncareabout]

@@DrawdeThePotato devaluation doesnt mean its doing worse, the chinese devaluate their currency so americans dollar have more purshasing power in their businesses flocking American investment to China because its cheaper but at the same time providing jobs which is a win win situation, dont let you google stats fool you😉

[@johnaugsburger6192]

Thanks so much

[@Laidback_616]

As an American who has went year or two washing clothes by hand, its no joke. On top of that they never smell the freshest. I'll never forget that odor and embarrassment.

[@SrSideral]

You just need to let your clothes soaking in water with soup for some hours. If the water looks bad, use a cloth brush and repeat. The manual work bothered me more, once you have a washer machine you never come back.

[@mzee5533]

In most African countries majority of people use hands either with powdered soap or solid bars

[@drury2d8]

I washed clothes wth hand for 20 years. No problems or odor if you use correct detergent and soak them for a few hours!

[@youxkio]

You all are so silly. Here in Asia, washing clothes is a healthy exercise because we use our feet!!!!! Why should we use our smoothed skin and fragile hands?

[@paulborneo7535]

If you place the bucket on a table your back won't hurt.

[@tomsriver2838]

I bet you graduated from Harvard university.

[@Jibbie49]

Certainly buy a scrub board like my GM use to use and get some of those kids to help. Another option is a "washing stick".

[@beginnerquant6261]

Good job! I just installed a solar led light for my parents. Hope the carbon neutral comes as early as possible.

[@AArco-vc1jj]

One hurricane like in 2004 and all those panels are gone. LOL

[@nathanshaw5037]

Yeah and one tornado and a power plant is destroyed what's the point

[@Leonard_MT]

@@nathanshaw5037 no really I’m willing to bet that a nuclear power plant is significantly more likely to survive a hurricane as long as the facility follows a robust process hazard analysis and good industry practices

[@meerkathero6032]

@@Leonard_MT Do you really think that the risk analyses was not done for the PV power plant and the design does not follow best engineering practices? If so, you might be wrong.

[@jlopez9228]

DR is doom by being next to the disaster that is Haiti. The UN doesn’t want to help Haiti , so what do they do? Start a smear campaign against DR to put pressure on them and make the island one country, in order for resolve the issue by having DR take on the responsibility. Haiti is not worth helping, they are the most ungrateful people there could be. I wish the island would brake apart. Good luck DR.

[@blad89s65]

If anybody deserves to pull a Russia it should be Dominican Republic Haitians have been occupying a foreign territory that should be a Dominican territory it’s wild that they were aloud to occupied that territory

[@anthonymanderson7671]

The DR is doing the great job and prospering it's people while haiti is still in centuries of poverty since it's independence on 1804.

[@erhardbaehni1832]

Have spend several months there due Covie . Was very frustrated to see lots of waste . Burning garbage is very common In villages and Cities . Also burning tree and palm leaves . Plastic everywhere . It is time to do a better job . Biomass and proper recycling. It is a shame to see such neanderthal status . Of course the all inclusive resorts are not seeing that as thier eyes are only on the buffet or on the perfect golf course .

[@tregua24]

Where did you see all that?

[@erhardbaehni1832]

@@tregua24 everywhere..of course not in the all inclusive resort . Very sad ..the people burn the garbage in the villages at night , also organic matters as palm and tree leaves rater use them as compost for new soil ..all is about 100 years back on civilization.

[@realvanman1]

How is new technology going to solve the problem of the panels being stolen and or sold?

[@youxkio]

Developing countries have something to teach developed countries.

[@emuriddle9364]

I agree. Life skills, Humanity, and Teamwork. Affluence is good. But it can blind people to the reality, outside their Upper Middle Class neighborhood.

[@ginogini7047]

and where are rich countries on renewable

[@Kiyarose3999]

I hope they don’t make the same mistake as ‘developed’ countries by everyone having private appliances such as washing machines. It can only be sustainable if communal facilities are set up such as Launderettes. Also private appliances goes against communities as it divides people in their own homes, rather than doing things together! Electricity can be a liberator, but also a trap!

[@alejandroriqueury8377]

Lol those people in the beginning are not dominicans

[@juanguzman1824]

Mostly Haitians in this video.

[@nonologylol]

Nope those are poor Dominicans. Be real! (I'm Dominican)

[@yazuki1185]

@@nonologylol Or either you don't live here or you didn't grow up here

[@jayfitt4023]

@@nonologylol those are Haitians

[@CalebKalli]

I wish more people invested in kite power

[@MQ2011de]

Enjoy your stable energy production

[@emuriddle9364]

Well.... Somebody is using Big Brain solutions. 😎👍

[@PlacesDominicanRepublic]

The best place, welcome to the Dominican Republic 🏝️🏖️🏄🏻‍♂️🏊‍♀️🏌️‍♂️🌊

[@j.corona8118]

The border shared by Haiti and DR is a wonderful location for more wind turbines. The Catalina fossils fuel plant was a terrible plan from a prior government working with china to build a coal burning plant in a beautiful tourist country... let that be the past. DR needs to harness more green energy like hydro and Solar providing more jobs for a green independent future.

[@ulisesjorge]

That plant was built by Brazilian conglomerate Odebrecht; none of the promised Chinese investment for breaking up with Taiwan materialized.

[@tony001212]

the punta catalina power plant was not built by the Chinese, it was built by the Brazilian owned company odebrecht.

[@IvanPlayStation4LiFe]

Haitians living DR all I see in the video

[@Cwlo-kp4uz]

Mmgvaso

[@Cwlo-kp4uz]

Mmgvo

[@os8051]

They call it villages instead of neighborhood TF

[@nutzeeer]

They should all get tesla power packs. One per village already helps to stabilize everything!

[@DavidS-wm9ud]

Great to see people receiving something as transformational as electricity, and yet so bizarre seeing such out dated and "hierarchical" models being utilized in the age of "distribution". At the very least the shade created under the solar panels could be used utilised as either buildings for the locals or even shade for animals. We need to get smarter. Systems need to be simpler. The sun shines on everyone so why have a grid?!? Crazy designs.

[@dlewis8405]

Solar mirror power plants focus the light on a column of salt that is heated up and used to run a turbine. That allows the heat to be used at night for electricity generation

[@larsradtke4097]

Check the costs.

[@thesilentone4024]

Mybe collect the rain water and or do that and as its running to the tank its spins a small turbine for electric to it mybe 5w a second but its better then zero

[@Paulo44.01]

5w (watts is a measure of power, J/s, so you don't say w/s) would require 0.5L/s of water falling 1m, or 1800L of water an hour. And that's barely enough for a small light

[@thesilentone4024]

@@Paulo44.01 yes but have lets say hundreds of people doing it multiple times a day that adds up fast

[@Paulo44.01]

@@thesilentone4024 it's just impractical when you compare that with a solar panel. One panel with like 2m can produce something like 60w on average throughout the year, if I'm not mistaken, and it's much cheaper that having tens of tiny water turbine generators would be

[@thesilentone4024]

@@Paulo44.01 wo I'm not saying for town use im just saying a little bit of power can mybe help relieve stress on the grid and mybe prevent some blackouts. A good power source is vertical wind turbines. 1 they kill less birds 2 they can be bigger 3 they can move in slower winds 4 they can work in faster winds to. They should invest in a small 1gw water turbine or a small line of 10 mg turbines that go down the small streams and rivers 👍

[@TecnoG]

DR is a country with 48k km square

[@wilsonfco.ramirez5562]

We got some limitations with something named CDEEE

[@chaseofori-atta2225]

Good for the Dominican Republic! 🇩🇴

[@juanasantanatv9278]

Veo más haitianos que dominicanos.. dominicanos cuiden su pasi despierten

[@thegreatarkanum3037]

Juana santanatv coño deja el racismo yo soy dominicano pero este video no habla nada de razas sino de energía renovable, sabemos que hay muchos de las dos razas que no se llevan bien pero no hay que hechar le leña al fuego 🔥....

[@jayfitt4023]

@@thegreatarkanum3037 pero el tiene razón está lleno de haitiano y ma todos casi ilegales ..

[@bxbank]

There are better wind devices than these huge fans.

[@saja.]

Super!

[@fredtjack23]

Thank you outstanding

[@hdaviator9181]

All nice, until a hurricane comes and blows it all away.

[@meerkathero6032]

The Hurricanes Irma and Maria devastated the region a while ago. The solar PV power plant is still here. Seems that the design is good enough to resist a class 5 Hurricane.

[@Snoy_Fly]

There’s a hurricane right now going straight towards the biggest and second biggest solar panel parks in the Caribbean and central America located in the south of the Dominican Republic. I’m sure they think about hurricanes when they build these things in the DR because it is used to hurricane season every year.

[@ruimiguelchocas]

A small system with integration of solar, wind and batterys can change people lives. Comunity is the Key! If this small town can have eletricity, the town can have a local laundry, with one or two waching machines, for the all town, so the women (or men) don´t need to spend 3 days waching by hand and focus in sometjing else. For us this is small thing, but for them is huge save of time. Besides If they have power, Now they can have a Starlink dish and provide the all village with internet for education. The true revollution is here, no big infrastructure but small off grid independents communitys.

[@jacobdouglasoates]

Good thing no devastating weather events impact DR

[@anthonymanderson7671]

Hurricanes impact the DR most of the time during hurricane season sometimes not that bad.

[@allydr90]

If it's inland, it's not that bad. It's the coasts that are screwed.

[@driftlesshermit]

Wouldn't it be better if everyone went back to washing clothes in a bucket and living in mud huts?

[@dontbanmebrodontbanme5403]

No.

[@BryanGonzalez-by3nk]

There were many Haitians in the video, not Dominicans

[@Lando-kx6so]

There were both

[@BryanGonzalez-by3nk]

@@Lando-kx6so exactly, but this video is about the Dominican Republic

[@richardroit]

Well, that is how border towns are now.

[@MikeLiteraus]

How are more solar panels supposed to help if the previous ones fell into disrepair or were stolen 🤔

[@sollytrotz6056]

I think the one in the other village is protected by a fence and it is so big that noone can steal it without someone seeing it.

[@peter320vn]

If you watched the video, they said the solar will be centralized. That mean they only need security in one place instead individual solar light poles and houses. Video also mention villagers that use the power will pay a portion for the solar and repair cost. 🤔

[@justinreynolds2039]

They are taking the responsibility away from individual units and using a newer upgraded centralized system of pv and battery and distributing with help of professional staff

[@meerkathero6032]

The villager paid for it, they own it and they will protect it.

[@eaaeeeea]

If someone wants to do foreign aid, here's a proposal: donate a solar and wind farm, as well as a Tesla megapack and a Starlink satellite broadband internet to Dominican Republic!

[@samuelmartinez6355]

Thank you, Germany

[@Glowbetraveler]

Dominican are very resourceful but very poor. A little boost with small deeds will give the growth required to seed smart development.

[@Bartolo.Gonzalez]

Get informed better! Although the DR is a developing country, it is one of the countries with the least poor in Latin America and those peasants of the real savanna do not represent the majority of the Dominicans.

[@nonologylol]

@@Bartolo.Gonzalez I'm Dominican and there is poverty all over the country. No need for the word peasants, be kind.

[@Bartolo.Gonzalez]

@@nonologylol Greeting! One thing is what you perceive and another, is the data that is said of the Dominican Republic, where poverty is measured with indicators from the UNDP and the World Bank, in addition to the advice that these organizations provide. And even with poverty due to covid-19 it is in 25% of the population (2, 440, 479 according yo the Ministry of Economy, Planning and Development 17/03/2021), the DR continues to be one of the countries with the lowest poverty in Latin America.

[@Bartolo.Gonzalez]

@@nonologylol In a town that has no coast, where my family is from in the South Region, because I live in the National District. Years ago in that town there were many motorcycles, but today there are many vehicles of different types, in addition to motorcycles. But there are also hotels, several supermarkets, cabins, discos, reinforced concrete houses and buildings. Anyway, I tell you that in the DR poverty has decreased a lot and even, international organizations endorse it because they use their indicators. Note: This town is in one of the 4 provinces that has the lowest Human Development Index in the country 🇩🇴

[@tregua24]

You do realize that area is near the border, and those people are mostly undocumented Haitians doing illegal settlements. 🤣

[@Chobaca]

You didn't need electricity for a washing machine though.

[@arcan762]

What kind of magic-powered washing machine do you have???

[@Chobaca]

@@arcan762 are you serious? You've never seen a pedal or bike powered one?

[@Masterrunescapeer]

@@Chobaca good luck with the spin cycle, it doesn't really work correctly.

[@Chobaca]

@@Masterrunescapeer what ever troll

[@Masterrunescapeer]

@@Chobaca so I'm a troll by saying manual spin cycle with a pedal is something that is pretty difficult to do? Have you ever used a pedal powered washing machine?

[@arturoBbrito]

So how are they going to fix it after hurricane?

[@baronvonlimbourgh1716]

Great news. But why build a grid? Why not decentralise power generation. That is the real future.

[@hex5874]

you have seemingly no idea how energy production work

[@meerkathero6032]

@@hex5874 Nowadays mini- and microgrids are much more feasible compared to Mr. Edisons time and much more stable and economic. Not totally unreallistic. However, nowadays, most of the country is covered by an electric grid, built in the past with billions of $$, it makes sense to use the infrastructure available. Not only because it is here, also because it helps a lot to balance and stabilize the power supply and consumption.

[@user-uw3fi2zg4t]

@@hex5874 cool, now you are two that have no idea

[@Duality-Mode]

Buy more products and clothes made in Dominican Republic

[@cybertrk]

Next electric cars, carts, bikes… farming equipment… and they will flourish. So really just batteries are next.

[@tregua24]

The only reason they don't have electricity there is because those people are irregular settlers, mostly Hatians. That's not a town, village or anything.

[@SR-pb6wf]

Most of those people are Haitians living in DR

[@bxmoreno1988]

We do not live in villages

[@90skid97]

great with clean energy. You do wonder though, how come people are so stuck in development, it could litterally be a scene from Africa, and yet this is part of the Americas and the "Modern world". How do you even manage to stay as one of the poorest nations in the world?

[@crash1do]

Too much corruption, that's why.

[@emuriddle9364]

@@crash1do What this guy said. Smart people don't even get a chance to use their talents. Because they're not friends with the boss or bureaucrat.

[@thetowerfantasymusic]

That poor horse

[@thebeautifulones5436]

I've seen countless aid funded solar systems in the 3rd world. Not a single one had been checked or reviewed after installation and every single one was broken.

[@meerkathero6032]

Sure, you did check all of the countless aid funded solar systems in the 3rd world and you exclusively found out during your inspections that every single one is broken. It is just a guess, but it might be that you did not inspect the countless systems nor have you seen more than one or two solar systems in a 3rd world country in your whole life.

[@strelnikoff7]

Now plant those trees back ...

[@calvinbrown7680]

Batteries time, D.R

[@mikez2779]

200 hectares? never cease to amaze me that no environmentalists ever bother to mention its 200 hectares of trees that have been cut down and 200 hectares of animal habitats that are no longer there. instead its now 200 hectares of eroding soil, that would soon turn into a wasteland.

[@Critizens]

Have a look at 3:55. Doesn't look like a forest around there, don't you think so? Also, many plants can crow in the half-shadow of solar panels - in dry regions often even better, since much less water evaporate over a sunny day. And since no agricultural work is being done, bees and many more insects can live there. The project was further surrounded by environmental compensation measures.

[@IvanTerreroDDS]

Ya ven como no es sostenible y confiable