As we are all aware, The Dominican Republic does not generate enough power to support 100% on demand access to that power for its Island businesses and residences. The country has what they call rolling brown outs. The majority of all power still uses fossil fuels which is costly and dirty. They are generating a small amount of wind energy on the south cost at this time, and will continue to grow this as outside funding increases. With this in mind, we are promoting and designating our resort community as Energy Neutral. This means that we are generating as much power as we use.
The first reason for this is essentially to have access to consistent power as we need it.
The second is ecologically minded resorts need to walk the walk. Third is that we have an abundance of solar and wind power available to us in our front yard and overhead.
Each of the homes that have been developed all have optional solar panels applications, hot water panel systems, water collection and reserve backup generators built into the homes. These are all options for each home owner but offer great consistency and return on investment in short order.
As for the development itself. Each building and structure will use solar power, water collection and have access to back up power generation on site. We are also in the early stages of R&D on a small low impact wind farm for the top section of the development in a designated "green space" area that is currently the equestrian center. This would allow us to be 100% independent from the power provider while still having access to multiple forms of backup power on site. We are blessed with consistent on-shore breezes that will make a low impact wind farm a big benefit without the need for tall tower-like industrial turbines.
This simple idea of energy neutral gives us longevity, consistency and conservation for our beautiful resort community. We hope you all agree.
