Energy Adviser Faces Conflict-of-Interest Question in Power Reform

Published on Honduras Daily · Jun 27, 2026 · Originally reported June 26, 2026 by Contracorriente

Gerardo Salgado, an adviser to Congress's Energy Commission, also sits on the board of the Honduran Renewable Energy Association, which is pressing lawmakers to write microgrids and macrogrids into the coming electricity-sector reform—provisions absent from the commission's original draft but possibly added during final debate.

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