Comprehensive Planning for Electric Power Supply in Haiti: Expansion of the Supply of Electricity Generation
- The study is organized as a siting exercise: for each generation technology it identifies where in Haiti new plants would best be located.
- Thermal options assessed include heavy oil and diesel, a coal plant, biomass and municipal solid waste.
- Liquefied natural gas is considered in combined-cycle configuration.
- Renewable options assessed are hydroelectricity, wind farms and photovoltaic plants.
- Interconnection availability is treated as a supply option in its own right, alongside domestic generation.
- Candidate additions are sized in megawatts over a planning horizon extending into the 2030s.
Prepared by the Latin American Energy Organization under Consulting Services CPSC 142/2013 with Canadian Cooperation 065/2013, this volume of OLADE's comprehensive planning work for Haiti's electric power supply addresses one question: how the country should expand its generating capacity, and where. It works through the candidate technologies in turn, identifying the best sites for each. Thermal options cover heavy oil and diesel plants, a coal plant, and other thermal routes including biomass and municipal solid waste.
Gas is considered as liquefied natural gas in combined cycle. The renewable options assessed are hydroelectricity, wind farms and photovoltaic plants. The study also examines the availability of interconnections, which for Haiti means the physical and institutional scope for linking to neighboring systems rather than relying solely on domestic capacity. Candidate additions are sized in megawatts across a planning horizon reaching into the 2030s, so the document functions as a menu of siting options with indicative capacities rather than a single recommended build-out. It is one output of a broader planning engagement, and reads as the supply-side companion to demand and network work carried out under the same project.
How to cite
Latin American Energy Organization (OLADE), 2014, Comprehensive Planning for Electric Power Supply in Haiti: Expansion of the Supply of Electricity Generation, https://www.olade.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/OLADE-19887-Expansion-of-the-supply-of-Electricity-generation-report-20140804.pdf