2023-06-08 03:54:27
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Power cuts in Honduras
Honduras is the country most affected in the region by electricity shortages, as President Xiomara Castro acknowledged on Saturday. The national electricity company has scheduled power cuts, while the business community predicts a decline in GDP due to these energy shortages.
“We are facing a serious energy rationing due to the low level of water in the reservoirs and the unavailability of thermoelectric plants,” the Honduran president lamented on Saturday.
Business leaders in northern Honduras, the country’s most industrialized region, have complained about power cuts of up to eight hours a day.
Drought or heavy rain
In 2022, with “normal” precipitation, hydroelectric production was 3108 gigawatts/hour, but it fell in 2023 to 2797 gigawatts/hour, or about 10%.
Since 2013, the countries of Central America have been interconnected by 1,793 km of lines to enable energy exchanges between the six countries.
Read again: ‘La Niña’ weather phenomenon ends, soon to be replaced by ‘El Niño’
El Niño, is a natural climatic phenomenon generally associated with an increase in temperatures, increased drought in some parts of the world and heavy rains in others. It last occurred in 2018-2019 and gave way to a particularly long episode of almost three years of La Niña, which causes the opposite effects and in particular a drop in temperatures.
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