Business View Caribbean | April/May 2022

22 BUSINESS VIEW CARIBBEAN VOLUME 9, ISSUE 4 AT A GLANCE LUZ Y FUERZA (COMPAÑÍA DE LUZ Y FUERZA DE LAS TERRENAS) WHAT: Community supportive electricity distributor WHERE: Based in Las Terrenas, Dominican Republic WEBSITE: https://luzyfuerza.com.do/ C ompañía de Luz y Fuerza de Las Terrenas, SA (Light & Power Company of Las Terrenas) was founded in 1992 and began operations in January 1994. Since then it has provided service to more than 10,000 residential, hotel, and commercial customers. Luz y Fuerza was created with the intention of supplying electricity to all the regions of the province of Samaná where the lines of the former Dominican Electricity Corporation (CDE) did not exist. On August 6, 2015, the interconnection of the distribution networks of the Compañía de Luz y Fuerza de Las Terrenas to the National Interconnected Electric System was carried out. It currently supplies power to Las Terrenas and Las Galeras. Luz y Fuerza operates with technical and economic distribution losses of less than 10%, with 100% of its customers duly metered and with a charge close to 98% of the energy Fuerza Luz y Committed to the people