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Leonardo Deras, a commissioner at electricity regulator CREE, warned that state utility ENEE is losing 1.3 billion lempiras (about $52 million) a month and that, without action, losses could reach 150,000 million lempiras (about $6 billion) in coming years.

The Liberal Party's Congress members say they secured a clause prohibiting direct and indirect privatization of Honduras's national electricity utility, though they continue to raise concerns about sector competition, tariff reduction, energy theft, and the company's debt relief plan.

A study by the Honduran private-sector council found that blackouts and electrical interruptions cost businesses approximately L1.2 billion (about $48 million) a year, with small firms hit hardest, as the government pushes energy-sector reforms.

Departments in western Honduras including Ocotepeque and Copán have suffered over 9,900 minutes without electricity in the first six months of 2026, blamed on aging infrastructure over 40 years old; ENEE says it will upgrade substations and trim vegetation to reduce outages.

The president of Honduras's renewable energy association said Friday that private generators have no intention to seize state electricity company ENEE assets and are focused on their own projects within reformed power-sector regulations.

Residents in Santa Bárbara, Atlántida, and Lempira are protesting recurring blackouts lasting up to three days, citing damage to appliances, food spoilage, and lack of official communication from the national power utility ENEE.

ENEE manager Guillermo Peña cited insufficient investment and maintenance of the electricity grid as the root cause of Honduras's recurring power outages.

The Tegucigalpa Chamber of Commerce called for structural reforms to Honduras's electricity system, saying chronic outages and service failures at the state utility ENEE are harming businesses and threatening the country's competitiveness.

Edgar Aguilar, an energy analyst at the ASJ (Foundation for the Study of Applied Law), says the National Congress's failure to advance an energy reform bill poses a direct fiscal risk to Honduras as the state utility ENEE continues to post multimillion-lempira losses.

The National Electric Company's manager said ongoing blackouts across western Honduras stem from system instability rooted in insufficient investment and maintenance over time.

The state power utility ENEE will cut electricity to several neighborhoods in San Pedro Sula on Sunday, June 21, for two separate maintenance windows on transmission lines—7 a.m. to 3 p.m. and noon to 3 p.m.

Residents of Ocotepeque blocked part of the CA-4 highway to demand that national power utility ENEE fix chronic blackouts causing economic losses and daily disruptions across the department.

Honduras's state utility ENEE will cut power on June 19 in parts of Francisco Morazán, Yoro, and Cortés for substation maintenance and transmission-line construction, with the Central District affected from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. and El Progreso from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Analysts say Honduras's state electricity utility, ENEE, requires $6 billion in investment over the next ten years to improve service delivery across the country.

The Liberal Party's congressional bloc said it will not support a reform to the state power utility (ENEE) unless the proposal explicitly guarantees the company will not be privatized.

Congress opened a first reading of an 18-article bill to reorganize Honduras's electrical system, with stated aims to lower costs, improve service, reduce blackouts, and keep state utility ENEE in public hands.

Energy analyst Salomón Ordóñez says Honduras's state power utility requires roughly L50 billion (about $2 billion) to upgrade distribution and transmission infrastructure, with private investment possible once electrical-sector reforms are approved.

Pending congressional reforms to Honduras's electric sector guarantee that ENEE employees will retain their union affiliation and benefits even after the state utility is restructured into separate generation, distribution, and transmission companies, and explicitly reject any privatization.

About 70% of buildings at the Cajón Dam's worker camps show significant deterioration, with 12 homes deemed uninhabitable and repairs estimated to cost over 60 million lempiras (about $2.4 million), according to technical assessments.

Salomón Ordóñez, the former head of state utility ENEE, says Honduras faces losing competitiveness in Central America unless it tackles two decades of governance failures in its electricity system, citing Guatemala and El Salvador's successful power-sector overhauls.

The state utility ENEE will conduct scheduled maintenance and grid-strengthening work on June 18, causing outages lasting four to eight hours in sectors across Francisco Morazán, Choluteca, Cortés, Santa Bárbara, and Colón.

A coalition of Honduran civic leaders has presented Congress with 12 preliminary conditions for the electric-sector reform, including legal protections against privatization of the state-owned energy company ENEE and stronger public oversight of its strategic assets.

A Congressional energy commission is drafting reforms to modernize the state-owned power utility ENEE through internal reorganization of transmission, distribution, and billing operations, while ruling out privatization and pledging to protect worker job security.

Finance Vice Minister Lilian Rivera said international lending institutions' backing for state utility ENEE reforms could create opportunities for future financing to strengthen and modernize Honduras's power sector.

Congress began debate on sweeping reforms to Honduras's electric utility ENEE, aiming to reshape its corporate structure and finances to address the state company's L50 million daily fiscal deficit before lawmakers begin mid-year recess.

A dispute over overlapping duties between the interim technical chief and the administrative director at Honduras's largest hydroelectric plant, El Cajón, is stalling procurement of vital parts needed to keep all four turbines running, according to internal communications obtained by El Heraldo.

The European Union's ambassador to Honduras endorsed proposed reforms to the country's electric industry law, saying the model mirrors European approaches and would improve service while lowering tariffs through renewable-energy incentives.

The World Bank, IDB, CAF, and BCIE have endorsed the government's plan to split the state electricity company into three entities for generation, transmission, and distribution, but critics warn it masks privatization and demand broader public consultation.

A banking and finance expert says reforming Honduras's electric system could help recover over 16 billion lempiras ($640 million) in losses and reduce the fiscal burden on the national power company, which has weakened since 1990.

Marco Antonio Flores, an energy researcher at UNAH, says combating electricity theft in areas with widespread illegal connections is crucial to rescuing the struggling state power utility ENEE.