Congress Weighs Reforms to Stem ENEE's L17 Billion Annual Losses

Published on Honduras Daily · Jul 23, 2026 · Originally reported July 23, 2026 by Once Noticias

Honduras's power utility ENEE loses more than L17 billion (about $680 million) a year—35% of total output—to technical inefficiencies and electricity theft; lawmakers are considering reforms to split ENEE into separate units for generation, transmission, and distribution, strengthen the regulatory commission, and set up an independent market operator.

An auto-translated English version isn’t available for Once Noticias, so this opens the original in Spanish. Honduras Daily curates and summarizes; the reporting is theirs.

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