Still No Money for Patuca III Hydroelectric Station

Despite the announcement made in november of a $297 million loan from China, the resources have not yet been disbursed and the project for the 105 MW plant in Honduras remains paralyzed.

Tuesday, February 17, 2015

The work has been paralyzed since 2013 due to problems with funding and expropriation of the surrounding land. However, during 2014 a loan was negotiated with the Republic of China which was approved in November but funds have not yet been disbursed and the work remains unfinished.

The Director of Planning at the National Electricity Company (ENEE by its initials in Spanish), Gerardo Salgado, reported in an article on Latribuna.hn that "... I think that many of the difficulties are due to the lack of diplomatic relations with China, it is something that we knew about, but the Chinese government itself promised to find solutions. "

He added that despite "... All of the efforts made by the administration of both the ENEE, and the Ministry of Finance for approval and disbursement of these resources, they have failed to achieve that end. We have been looking for options, but you can not end or start the search for financing when you have already started a massive effort to search for resources from China."

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