TEGUCIGALPA, HONDURAS.-If there Honduran Energy Company (EEH) In order to comply with the contract and reduce the reduction in distribution losses, the country even had the resources to build new hospitals.
Experts consulted by beadle quantified that from August 2016 to July 2020, ie in just four years, the National Electricity Company (ENEE) paid 13,238.1 million lempiras to EEH for a fixed cost.
In addition, the state-owned company loses one million dollars a day, or 25 million lempiras a day, due to technical and non-technical losses in distribution, which is the main obligation of the Honduran-Colombian company.
One month after the EEH fulfilled the contract, Honduras would have the resources to buy the vaccines and apply them to the population that is suitable to receive them, for example.
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At the discretion of the executive director of Association for a Fairer Society (ASJ), Carlos Hernández, losses from Aeneas they are large, above all, for the value at which they are paid EEH of $ 15 million per month of fixed cost, ten in cash and five that accumulate in debt, when, according to international studies, what should be paid is seven million.
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Reduction EEH should reduce losses, but in the first four years they have increased quite a lot, to the detriment of the state. |
So it is said that probably seven to eight million dollars are paid every month to Honduras energy without benefits for the country.
“With this, we would have enough resources to buy vaccines and immunize the entire Honduran people, one hundred percent of Hondurans,” Hernandez said.
The civil society leader considered it urgent that the state regain the governance of ENEE and all its attachments in order to reduce costs and be able to invest that money in the Honduran people, not in companies that did not produce the expected results.
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The fixed cost was considered leonine by different sectors and generated a strong controversy, as EEH did not comply with the reduction of losses in the distribution system, which totaled 32.61% as of November 2020.
Luis Guifarro, president of Honduras College of Economists (CEH), He considered that if the technical losses were eliminated under the EEH contract, there would not only be resources for the covid-19 vaccine, but even for more hospitals.
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MILLION ENEE has a million dollars a day in technical distribution losses because EEH could not comply. |
In his statements to EL HERAlDO, he agrees that, apart from the fact that the company has not complied with its commitment to reduce losses, the issue of payment of the fixed cost is inadequate.
In other countries, they have energy contracts in line with consumption demand and no fixed cost is recognized, he compared.
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Taking into account what the contract with EEH represented in terms of costs for the country, this would mean having vaccines and more hospitals to serve the population.
“Unfortunately, there are millions of resources that the state has ceased to obtain through the EEH contract, which would be used to allocate priority sectors of attention, such as health and education,” he lamented.
Besides, the efficiency of the Honduran economy is lost, because you can’t do business with energy that is not efficient, it is not possible for the outage to last up to eight hours, how will this contribute to business generation? he asked. Another problem is the high cost of energy, which is not only a problem for companies but also for households, because it is a burden and hinders economic growth.