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ENEE announced scheduled power cuts on September 4 affecting dozens of communities in Comayagua (8:30 a.m.–2:30 p.m.) and parts of San Pedro Sula (8:45 a.m.–2:45 p.m.).

ENEE has announced scheduled power cuts on September 3 in Santa Bárbara, Cortés, and Ocotepeque departments from early morning through mid-afternoon for maintenance work, equipment removal, and contractor projects.

ENEE will cut power Monday, August 31 from 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. in Tegucigalpa neighborhoods and 8:45 a.m. to 2:45 p.m. in Choloma for scheduled distribution-network maintenance.

The national electric utility (ENEE) will cut power on August 25 in neighborhoods across Francisco Morazán, Comayagua, and Cortés departments for maintenance, equipment installation, and private-company work, with outages lasting 6 hours in most areas.

Honduras's national power utility (ENEE) has scheduled outages for August 22 in Copán, El Paraíso, and Francisco Morazán departments, with cuts beginning between 8:20 a.m. and 8:30 a.m. and lasting up to seven hours for maintenance work.

Honduras's national utility ENEE has scheduled maintenance outages on August 19 affecting neighborhoods in Francisco Morazán, Cortés, Intibucá, Copán, and Santa Bárbara, with most cuts lasting roughly six hours between 8 a.m. and 3 p.m.

The Property Institute plans to begin distributing metal license plates to roughly one million vehicles currently operating with temporary three-month permits in the final quarter of 2026, with owners paying 500 lempiras (about $20) per plate.

The European Union is offering up to €500 million (over L15.4 billion) to strengthen electricity transmission infrastructure in Honduras and Central America, including technical assistance, financing from the European Investment Bank, and technology transfer from European firms.

The national power utility ENEE will cut electricity on August 9 for scheduled maintenance on substations, distribution lines, and power transformers across neighborhoods in Tegucigalpa and Cortés, with outages running from 7 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. depending on location.

The National Congress authorized 371 construction and supervision contracts totaling L2.4 billion (about $96 million) to restart stalled education, road, and water-supply projects across 40 municipalities, most halted from the previous administration.

The national electricity utility ENEE announced scheduled power cuts on August 6 across Francisco Morazán, San Pedro Sula, Olancho, and Valle for routine circuit maintenance, with outages lasting four to six hours in affected neighborhoods.

Honduras will deploy license plates embedded with radio-frequency identification technology and install 40 electronic readers nationwide to track vehicles, reduce the 990,000 unregistered cars currently on roads, and strengthen law-enforcement and border controls.

Honduras spent more than 1.05 billion lempiras (about $42 million) on pothole repairs, pavement rehabilitation, and maintenance of 2,702 kilometers of roads under a one-year road emergency decree declared in February 2026, with ten contractors handling 56 projects nationwide.

The national utility ENEE will cut power on July 9 across parts of Colón, Cortés, El Paraíso, and Olancho for seven to nine hours of distribution-network maintenance, affecting residential, commercial, industrial, and rural zones.

Honduras's state power utility ENEE has announced widespread outages on July 7 affecting Colón, Santa Bárbara, Cortés, Copán, Francisco Morazán, and Olancho departments between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. for scheduled maintenance work.

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 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 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 state electricity company ENEE announced planned power cuts on June 4 in multiple regions including Tegucigalpa, Nacaome, Peña Blanca, La Lima, and Colón for scheduled maintenance, tree trimming, and equipment upgrades.

The state electricity utility ENEE will cut power to multiple zones across Honduras on June 3 from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. for scheduled maintenance, affecting areas in Choluteca, El Paraíso, and Tegucigalpa.