Dominican Republic

Getting Electricity in

Dominican Republic

Listed below are the procedures, time and cost required for a business to obtain an electricity connection for a newly constructed building.

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  • Name of Utility: EdeSur
  • City: Santo Domingo

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No. Procedure Time to Complete Associated Costs
1 Obtain approval of electrical plans from EDESUR

A certified electrician of the client designs the interconnection plans and sends them to EDESUR for approval. In those plans the electrician specifies the nature of the transformer to be installed. Two copies of the plans need to be submitted to nearest commercial office of EDESUR to the neighbourhood of the warehouse. EDESUR analyses the interconnection plans and suggest corrections. Two or three visits to EDESUR to correct plans are usual. A tax of RD$ 1,500 must be paid at the time of submission of the application by the client and RD$ 500 for any futher visit for submission of corrected plans. When the final connections have been approved, the client will have to submit 6 copies of the plans and will get back 5 of them duly stamped by EDESUR.

Agency: EDESUR 		45 calendar days DOP 2,500.0
2 An electrician hired by the client does the external works

Once the interconnection plans have been approved by EDESUR, the client hires an electrician to build the electric system (medium voltage net, substation, meter, etc.)

Agency: Electrician 		7 calendar days DOP 500,000.0
3 Receive external inspectin by EDESUR

EDESUR comes to check that the works follow the approved plan and raises observations to correct those works which do not follow the approved plans. The client must request the inspection when he considers everything is ready for interconnection. The first inspections do not bear any cost, but EDESUR charges RD$ 500 for each inspection after the third one. EDESUR delivers a letter of approval (carta de Aceptación de la Obra).

Agency: EDESUR 		7 calendar days no charge
4 Receive interconnection estimate by EDESUR

The interconnection estimate contains the cost that the client must pay to EDESUR to carry out the interconnection works to the electricity distribution network. The client must submit the final letter of approval of EDESUR, two copies of the approved plans, a CD with the approved plan in DWG, a letter of request of estimate and he has to pay a stamp duty of RD$ 500.

Agency: EDESUR 		7 calendar days DOP 500.0
5 Client pays taxes to CODIA

After receiving the interconnection estimate from EDESUR, the client must pay the stamp duty of CODIA. The client must pay within 3 months. After payment has been done, EDESUR will carry out the interconnection works.

Agency: CODIA 		1 calendar day DOP 5,000.0
6 Receive external works by EDESUR

Interconnection works are carried out by EDESUR with a TCT team (Brigada de Trabajo Con Tensión). If the works cannot be carried out with full voltage , EDESUR will stop the energy in the circuit and will charge that cost to the client.

Agency: EDESUR 		15 calendar days DOP 25,000.0
* 7 Client signs supply contract with EDESUR and meter is installed

The client has to open a user account with EDESUR. The client has to deposit an amount which is reimbursed at the cancelation of the contract. The deposit equals twice the client's bill in RD$. That is calculated on the basis of the capacity declared by the client or as a percentage of the substation capacity which would go between 60 to 80%. Law 125-01 establishes a payment of monthly interest for the deposit but this dispositions have not been implemented yet.

Agency: EDESUR 		7 calendar days DOP 107,507.8
* Takes place simultaneously with another procedure.
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