The Ministry of Energy and Mining (Spanish: Ministerio de Energía y Minas) of the Dominican Republic is a government institution in charge of the responsible development of the country's energy and mining sectors.
Its main concern is to keep a reliable energy infrastructure and preserve an adequate exploitation of the country's minerals.
This office appeared on 2013 with its current name as a separate institution from the Ministry of Industry and Trade.
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.
[8] These are: The Dominican Corporations of State's Electric Companies (Corporación Dominicana de Empresas Eléctricas Estatales or CDEEE) was dissolved and integrated to this Ministry on 2020.