Santo Domingo.- A team of technicians of the multinational company AES Corporation from several countries restored the energy service to an area of the capital Port-au-Prince, where they concluding the installation of the substation in Verraux this week, to supply electricity to one Haiti’s most important industrial and residential zones.
The work will provide energy for the first time since the January 12 quake for around 10,000 customers, or 60% of the billing by Haiti’s electricity provider, EDH.
As part of the substation’s inaugural the AES team donated personal protective equipment for EDH workers, and began a transference program on better practices in security and operational excellence.
The team of volunteers with AES representatives from several countries including El Salvador, Cameroon and Dominican Republic carried out the work in the substation, and continues its contributions to restore Haiti’s electrical infrastructure, in coordination with Dominican Republic’s State-owned energy group CDEEE.