Thursday at a press conference at the National Palace, Jean Nicolas Hervé Pierre-Louis the Director General of Electricity Of Haiti (EDH) gave an update on the black-outs which have lasted for several months in Port-au-Prince and in the metropolitan area where certain districts can remain in the dark for a week...

Drought, lack of fuel and unpaid slips among others are responsible for the blackouts in the country explained the DG of the EDH. Regarding the energy situation, EDH currently only has 88 megawatts (MW) of the 220 MW needed to supply the capital and the metropolitan area (60 MW in fuel oil, 14 MW in diesel and 14 MW in the Peligré dam on more of a capacity of 50 MW, a single turbine in operation due to the drought) said Jean Nicolas Hervé Pierre-Louis.

As a result, he announced that the majority of circuits in the metropolitan area will be supplied 6 hours on average per day and other circuits will be supplied only every three days.

In addition, illegal current diversions and illegal occupation of the 69,000 and 115,000 volt line pylon sites prevent EDH from maximizing its production.

"Studies are currently underway for the construction of a new modern 300 megawatt power plant using more economical natural gas, which will reduce the production cost for customer satisfaction and meet new demands," said Jean Nicolas Hervé Pierre-Louis, while waiting for these studies to be completed and funding to be found "EDH hopes to unlock the loan from Taiwan [147 million dollars https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-27162-haiti-politic-gary-bodeau-talks-about-investments-and-electricity-with-the-ambassador-of-taiwan.html ], in order to strengthen the transport network, the construction of 4 substations, the establishment of 10 thousand km of transmission lines in 69,000 volts and 30 km of lines in 115,000 volts. "

According to Hervé Pierre-Louis, his company expects fuel from the Government to increase its production, explaining that EDH needs 1.1 billion Gourdes per month for the purchase of fuel and that its revenues do not exceed 450 million due to the very low recovery rate, more than 80% of consumers do not pay their slips https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-28367-haiti-economy-the-edh-will-pass-from-the-word-to-the-acts-against-the-bad-payers.html , regretting that the company for the moment has no choice but to depend on the State subsidy to make up the difference and continue to provide service…

In addition to the deficit caused by residential consumers which amounted to 17.5 billion in January 2019, trade, industries, public and autonomous organizations and the street lighting which falls under the town hall owe more than 12 billion unpaid bills...

See also :

https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-29377-haiti-politic-no-improvement-of-electricity-before-1-month.html

https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-28367-haiti-economy-the-edh-will-pass-from-the-word-to-the-acts-against-the-bad-payers.html

https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-27561-haiti-notice-edh-announces-a-debt-of-more-than-20-billion-and-threatens-the-bad-payers.html

https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-27162-haiti-politic-gary-bodeau-talks-about-investments-and-electricity-with-the-ambassador-of-taiwan.html

https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-25913-haiti-flash-80-of-edh-customers-refuse-to-pay-their-electricity-bill.html

TB/ PI/ HaitiLibre

TB/ PI/ HaitiLibre