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. It is bordered to the west by Guatemala, to the southwest by El Salvador, to the southeast by Nicaragua, to the south by the Pacific Ocean at the Gulf of Fonseca, ...
's government owned and operated
electrical power
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company, operating within the
Electricity sector in Honduras.
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. It is bordered to the west by Guatemala, to the southwest by El Salvador, to the southeast by Nicaragua, to the south by the Pacific Ocean at the Gulf of Fonseca, ...
.
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 Hydroelectric
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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
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ENERSA
See also
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Hondutel
References
External links
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Honduras Electricity Statistics
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Electric power companies of Honduras
Government of Honduras