Honduras Renegotiates Thermal Energy Contracts

Leonardo Deraza, sub technical manager at the ENEE, said that no new contracts are being negotiated, but instead new conditions made for those already approved by the previous administration.

"They are negotiating, he said, that after 10 years all the facilities will be passed to the ENEE, rates and cost of energy.

In this way, the project will not only be established in the Aguán valley but it will be established in the three points which still have energy problems", reported proceso.hn

Source: proceso.hn

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