Santo Domingo – In a significant demonstration of international energy cooperation, AES Dominicana, under the leadership of President Edwin De los Santos, recently welcomed U.S. Ambassador to the Dominican Republic, Leah Campos, for an exclusive tour of the AES Andrés energy complex. The high-level meeting served as a platform to unveil the company’s strategic investment initiatives and ambitious plans to significantly augment the nation’s natural gas import and distribution capabilities.
During the comprehensive briefing, President De los Santos detailed the monumental financial commitment AES has made to the Dominican Republic, revealing cumulative investments surpassing US$2.4 billion. This figure solidifies the company’s position as the single largest source of U.S. capital investment within the country. He elaborated on the transformative impact of these funds, which have been instrumental in modernizing the national energy grid and establishing natural gas as a foundational economic driver for more than twenty years, powering diverse industrial sectors.
The engagement further highlighted the robust and expanding energy trade partnership between the United States and the Dominican Republic. Notably, the Caribbean nation has ascended to become the foremost importer of U.S. natural gas in the entire Latin American region. A cornerstone of this operation is AES’s advanced terminal, which utilizes an innovative ‘LNG plug and play’ operational model. This framework is designed to facilitate swift and dependable scalability to accommodate the country’s escalating energy consumption, a capacity proven by the record import of 4 million cubic meters of LNG in 2025.
Presently, the strategic alliance between AES Dominicana and its partner ENADOM is pivotal to the national energy matrix. They provide natural gas to seven separate power generation units, collectively injecting 1,800 megawatts into the national electricity grid. The existing infrastructure possesses the immediate capacity to integrate an additional 1,000 megawatts. Beyond power generation, the company’s distribution networks deliver gas directly to a wide array of end-users, including industrial manufacturers, commercial enterprises, the tourism industry, transportation services, and businesses within free trade zones. This comprehensive ecosystem underscores AES’s critical role in fortifying the Dominican Republic’s long-term energy security and sustainable economic development.