TEGUCIGALPA, HONDURAS.-If there Honduras Energy Company (EEH) To comply with the contract and reduce the reduction in distribution losses, the country would have the resources to even build new hospitals.
Experts consulted by THE HERALD quantified that from August 2016 to July 2020, that is, in just four years, the National Electric Power Company (ENEE) paid 13,238.1 million lempiras to EEH for fixed costs.
Apart from that, the state-owned company loses a million dollars a day, that is, 25 million lempiras a day, due to technical and non-technical distribution losses, which is the main commitment of the Honduran-Colombian company.
With a month for the EEH to honor the contract, Honduras would have the necessary resources to purchase the vaccines and, for example, apply them to the eligible population.
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At the discretion of the Executive Director of the Association for a More Just Society (ASJ), Carlos Hernández, the losses of the ENEE are especially high for the value paid EEH of $ 15 million a month in fixed costs, ten in cash and five accumulating in debt, while international studies show that seven million should be paid.
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Reduction EEH should cut the losses, but in the first four years they increased rather to the detriment of the state. |
So it is said that there may be seven to eight million dollars paid each month to provide energy to Honduras without benefiting the country.
“This would provide us with sufficient resources to buy vaccines and vaccinate all Honduran people, 100 percent of Hondurans,” Hernández emphasized.
The civil society leader believed that it is urgent for the state to regain the governance of ENEE and all its attachments in order to cut costs and invest that money in the Honduran population, not in companies that do not have the expected results.
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The fixed costs are considered to be leonine by several industries and have sparked strong controversy as EEH failed to meet the distribution system’s loss reduction, which totaled 32.61% as of November 2020.
Luis Guifarro, President of the College of Economists of Honduras (CEH), He believed that if the technical losses were eliminated, as stipulated in the contract with the EEH, there would be funds not only for the covid-19 vaccine, but even more hospitals.
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Millions ENEE has a million dollars a day in technical distribution losses because EEH failed to comply. |
In statements to EL HERAlDO, he agrees that, apart from the fact that the company has not fulfilled its commitment to reduce losses, the problem of paying the fixed costs is inappropriate.
In other countries, they have energy contracts in line with consumption-based demand and don’t recognize fixed costs, he compared.
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Taking into account what the contract with EEH has meant in terms of cost to the country would mean there must be vaccines and more hospitals to serve the population.
“Unfortunately, there are millions of resources that the state is no longer bringing in under the EEH contract, which would be used to allocate priority areas of interest, such as health and education,” he complained.
Aside from that, the efficiency of the Honduran economy is lost because you cannot do business with energy that is not efficient, it is not possible for a power outage to last up to eight hours, how does that contribute to generating sales? , he asked. Another problem is high energy costs, which are a problem not only for businesses, but also for households, as they are a burden and hinder economic growth.