He said the construction of a natural gas power plant of up to 600 megawatts by the United Arab Emirates in the Dominican northwest will greatly benefit the country, which in the last five or six years hasn’t added capacity to its system due to the government’s financial difficulties. "But now, announced by a strong, solid state, with sufficient resources and which already has investments in Dominican Republic, fruit of president Leonel Fernandez’s visit, this will be possible." Méndez said the Cogentrix plant’s conversion to natural gas and the one the United Arab Emirates will build would boost the country’s energy production and benefit the user. Full Article at Dominican Today