Haiti Electrical Power Grid

Time goes fast when you make a promise... Haitian president Jovenel Moise promised electricity 24 hours a day across Haiti in 24 months. as of October 2018, only 7 months remains. Will the president be able to keep that promise?

The Haitian president said the main problem with electricity in Haiti is not the production of energy but the network needed to carry that electricity across the country to the people who need it.

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The wind picked the wrong day to knock down the power line in my neighborhood in Hinche Haiti. May 1st is a holiday in Haiti and EDH, the electric company, doesn't care about your emergency!

It rained in the city of Hinche Haiti like I've never seen before!

The director of EDH received many phone calls about this and so far no one from the electric company has shown up to lift the power line off the ground or the power cable off the tin roof of the neighbor.

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Construction of an electricity grid in Haiti is expected to begin before the end of this year, a Taiwan Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) official said Thursday.

The deal is now in the final stage as an on-site investigative team from Taiwan is making final checks in Haiti, Yui Tah-ray, director-general of MOFA's Department of Latin American and Caribbean Affairs, told a press briefing in Taipei.

Meanwhile, the government is also helping Haiti to secure a US$150 million loan from the Export-Import Bank of the Republic of China, a government-funded bank that offers credit insurance for foreign investment originating in Taiwan, to pay for the project.

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Taiwan news site reports... Taiwan and Haiti are expected to sign an agreement by the end of this year for the construction of a power grid in Port-au-Prince to alleviate the country's energy supply problems, a high-level government Taiwanese official said.

According to the Taipei Times, This electricity project is one of the initiatives being discussed by a bilateral high-level task force that was established to draft new terms of cooperation in accordance with a consensus reached between President Tsai Ing-wen and Haitian President Jovenel Moise during his visit to Taiwan in May.

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