TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras.-If there is Honduras Energy Company (EEH) comply with the contract and lower the reduction in distribution losses, the country would have resources even to build new hospitals.
Experts consulted by THE HERALD they quantified that from August 2016 to July 2020, that is, in just four years, the National Electric Power Company (ENEE) has paid 13,238.1 million lempiras to EEH for fixed cost.
Apart from that, the state loses one million dollars a day, or 25 million lempiras a day, due to technical and non-technical distribution losses, which is the main obligation of the Honduran company.
With one month to go before the EEH fulfills the contract, Honduras would have the resources to buy the vaccines and apply it to the population that is eligible to receive it, for example.
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At the discretion of the Executive Director of the Association for a Fairer Society (ASJ), Carlos Hernández, the losses of the ENEE they are high, above all, for the value being paid to EEH of 15 million dollars of fixed cost monthly, 10 in cash and five that are accumulated in the debt, when according to international studies what it would have to be paying is seven million.
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reduction EEH should reduce losses but in the first four years they have rather increased, to the detriment of the state. |
Then there is talk that possibly seven to eight million dollars are being paid each month to Honduran energy without benefit to the country.
“With this we would have enough resources to buy vaccines and immunize the entire Honduran people, one hundred percent of Hondurans,” said Hernandez.
The leader of civil society considered it urgent that the state regain the governability of the ENEE and all its aggregates to reduce costs and be able to invest this money in the Honduran people, not in companies that have not yielded results. expected.
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The fixed cost has been considered leonine by several sectors and has generated strong controversy because EEH has not complied with the reduction in losses of the distribution system, which added 32.61% in November 2020.
Luis Guifarro, president of the College of Honduran Economists (CEH), considered that if the technical losses were eliminated as set out in the contract with the EEH, there would not only be resources for the covid-19 vaccine, but even for more hospitals.
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millions One million dollars a day in technical distribution losses has the ENEE because EEH has failed to comply. |
In statements to the herald agrees that apart from the fact that the company has failed to meet its commitment to reduce losses, the problem of payment of the fixed cost is inadequate.
In other countries they have energy contracts according to the demand that arises based on consumption and no fixed cost is recognized, he compared.
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If we take into account what the contract with EEH has meant in terms of cost to the country, this would mean having vaccines and more hospitals to serve the population.
“Unfortunately there are millions of resources that the state has failed to obtain with the EEH contract, which would be used to allocate priority sectors of care, such as health and education,” he lamented.
Other than that the efficiency of the Honduran economy is lost, because you can’t do business with energy that is not efficient, it is not possible for a blackout to last up to eight hours, as this will contribute to the generation Business? , he questioned. Another issue is the high cost of energy, which is not only a problem for businesses, but for households, because this represents a burden and prevents economic growth.