The Empresa Nacional de Energía Eléctrica (also commonly known as ENEE), is
Honduras
Honduras, officially the Republic of Honduras, is a country in Central America. The republic of Honduras is bordered to the west by Guatemala, to the southwest by El Salvador, to the southeast by Nicaragua, to the south by the Pacific Oce ...
's government owned and operated
electrical power
Electric power is the rate at which electrical energy is transferred by an electric circuit. The SI unit of power is the watt, one joule per second. Standard prefixes apply to watts as with other SI units: thousands, millions and billions of ...
company, operating within the
Electricity sector in Honduras
The electricity sector in Honduras has been shaped by the dominance of a vertically integrated utility; an incomplete attempt in the early 1990s to reform the sector; the increasing share of thermal generation over the past two decades; the poor ...
.
By the numbers
* ENEE employs more than 4,500 people.
* ENEE serves 1.3 million households and more than one hundred thousand of commercial and industrial customers.
* ENEE covers 84.8% of Honduras' electricity demand
(June 2012).
History
The organization was created on February 20, 1957, as an autonomous organization responsible for the production, transmission, distribution and commercialization of electrical energy in
Honduras
Honduras, officially the Republic of Honduras, is a country in Central America. The republic of Honduras is bordered to the west by Guatemala, to the southwest by El Salvador, to the southeast by Nicaragua, to the south by the Pacific Oce ...
.
The first large-scale project was the first hydroelectric power station, Cañaveral, which included the construction of transmission lines and substations in order to distribute its generated power to the final consumers. The so-called National Interconnected System continued to expand and now covers most main regions throughout the country. In 1985 the
Francisco Morazán
José Francisco Morazán Quesada (; born October 3, 1792 – September 15, 1842) was a Central American politician who served as president of the Federal Republic of Central America from 1830 to 1839. Before he was president of Central America h ...
Hydroelectric
Hydroelectricity, or hydroelectric power, is electricity generated from hydropower (water power). Hydropower supplies one sixth of the world's electricity, almost 4500 TWh in 2020, which is more than all other renewable sources combined and ...
Project (
El Cajón Dam) was completed at a cost of US$775 million.
After recently changing over to smart meters, electricity bills have increases three-fold.
Private energy suppliers
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Lufussa
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EMCE
*
ENERSA
See also
*
Hondutel
Hondutel (Empresa Hondureña de Telecomunicaciones), is the Honduras government's telecommunications company.
It has a monopoly on international calls.
History
Creation
The organization was created on May 7, 1976, as an autonomous organizat ...
References
External links
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Honduras Electricity Statistics
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Electric power companies of Honduras
Government of Honduras