Tegucigalpa. The Honduran Energy Company (EEH) closed the fourth year of operation of the Aenee distribution system with a deterioration in several indicators.
As of November 2020, average readings totaled 346,160, according to the latest Manitoba Hydro International (MHI) monthly report, which is due to the impact of Hurricanes Eta and Iota.
Last year, the highest results were in March with 833,156 and 468,782 in April, which was explained by containment measures to contain the spread of coronavirus.
According to the explanations of the executives of EEH, which operates the distribution system of the National Electric Power Company since August 2016, the traffic restrictions prevented the measurement personnel from performing the respective readings. The goal of the Honduran Energy Company was to close the previous year with an average consumption of 150,000, a commitment that the consortium of national and Colombian capital failed to meet.
The result. The increase in average readings from November of the previous year has a number of explanations. According to the MHI report, the EEH contract supervisor, the covid-19 pandemic, and Hurricanes Eta and Iota have shot up cases of average consumption.
He adds that of the 346,160 cases in November 2020, 52.46% (186,163) are related to the effect of Eta and Iota, while 47.54% (164,547) correspond to averages of novelties associated with reading.
In October, the cases totaled 204,375, an increase of 69.37%.
Sectors. The increase in average readings in November of the previous year has a number of explanations, and one of them is the rise in consumption in the residential sector. In November 2020 they totaled 326,739, higher than the 193,594 of the previous month, with an increase of 133,145, mostly in the northwestern part of the country, the region most affected by natural phenomena in the penultimate month of last year. The commercial sector is the second with more cases, with 15,891, higher than the 8,975 of October 2020.
These two sectors of consumption represent 98.9% of the cases of average readings.