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Through 1954 and 1955, the Dominican government focused on acquiring companies dedicated to the generation and distribution of electricity, and created the Dominican Electric Corporation (Corporación Dominicana de Electricidad or CDE) on 1955 by Decree no. 555. [4]
The Dominican Republic is a North American country located on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles of the Caribbean Sea in the North Atlantic Ocean.It shares a maritime border with Puerto Rico to the east and a land border with Haiti to the west, occupying the eastern five-eighths of Hispaniola which, along with Saint Martin, is one of only two islands in the Caribbean shared by ...
Domestic & General was founded by S. W. Copley, who was born in Huddersfield, England in 1859. [4] He was involved in property development, cattle-raising and public transport. He was unable to find insurance for his cattle during transit on his return to Great Britain in 1912, so formed the Western Australian Insurance Company (WAICO) in July ...
This is the boundary of the Solar System to interstellar space. The outermost region of the Solar System is the theorized Oort cloud, the source for long-period comets, extending to a radius of 2,000–200,000 AU. The closest star to the Solar System, Proxima Centauri, is 4.25 light-years (269,000 AU) away.
The Ministries of the Dominican Republic (Spanish: Ministerios de la República Dominicana) are the primary units of the executive branch of the government of the Dominican Republic. These offices were formerly known as Secretaries of State (Spanish: Secretarias de Estado), but that denominations changed on 2010, with the Constitutional reform ...
The power sector in the Dominican Republic has traditionally been, and still is, a bottleneck to the country's economic growth. A prolonged electricity crisis and ineffective remedial measures have led to a vicious cycle of regular blackouts, high operating costs of the distribution companies, large losses including electricity theft through illegal connections, high retail tariffs to cover ...
Cervecería Nacional Dominicana: Consumer goods Brewers Santo Domingo: 1929 Brewery P A Claro República Dominicana: Telecommunications Fixed line telecommunications Santo Domingo: 1930 Wireline and wireless P A Dominicana de Aviación: Consumer services Airlines Santo Domingo: 1944 Airline, defunct 1999 P D Grupo Corripio: Conglomerates ...
The Solar System consists of the Sun and the other celestial objects gravitationally bound to it: the eight planets, their moons, five currently identified dwarf planets and their seven known moons, and billions of small bodies. This last category includes asteroids, Kuiper belt objects, comets, meteoroids and interplanetary dust.