The Do­mini­ca gov­ern­ment says the con­struc­tion of the 10-megawatt ge­ot­her­mal pow­er plant, ex­pect­ed to be the first to be con­struct­ed in the Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty (CARI­COM), is on tar­get to be com­plet­ed by Christ­mas this year.

“A lot of work is tak­ing place. We are re­al­ly on our way to con­struct­ing our 10-megawatt ge­ot­her­mal pow­er plant. Cur­rent­ly, most of the equip­ment (have) been brought on-site. We had a ves­sel in port over a week ago,” said Dr. Vince Hen­der­son, Min­is­ter for For­eign Af­fairs, In­ter­na­tion­al Busi­ness, Trade and En­er­gy.

The Do­mini­ca Ge­ot­her­mal De­vel­op­ment Com­pa­ny (DGDC), the pub­lic-pri­vate part­ner­ship which is dri­ving the pow­er project, said that by har­ness­ing the Na­ture Isle’s vol­canic po­ten­tial, the fa­cil­i­ty, lo­cat­ed at Lau­dat, a small vil­lage in the in­te­ri­or of Do­mini­ca, promis­es to sig­nif­i­cant­ly re­duce fos­sil fu­el de­pen­den­cy while pro­vid­ing sta­ble, clean en­er­gy to an es­ti­mat­ed 23,000 Do­mini­can homes.