EDH - Electricité d'Haiti

There is a major blackout problem in Haiti right now because a of a delay in diesel fuel delivery and the lack or water in the Peligre Hydroelectric Dam.

According to news reports, only one generator is producing electricity at the damn causing most of the city or Port-au-Prince Haiti to be in the dark most of the time.

Of the 220 megawatts necessary to supply the capital and the surrounding areas, EDH, Haiti's electric company, currently only has 88 megawatts

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President Jovenel Moise promised electricity 24 hours a day across Haiti in 24 months. On July 3rd 2019 the 24 months will be over. Will the president deliver on that promise?

One journalist said you have to know today what tomorrow will be like. Nearly two months before the deadline is over, "I would be happy with just four hours of electricity per day," he said because the area where he lives in the Haitian capital does barely has electricity.

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Time goes fast when you make a promise... Haitian president Jovenel Moise promised electricity 24 hours a day across Haiti in 24 months. as of October 2018, only 7 months remains. Will the president be able to keep that promise?

The Haitian president said the main problem with electricity in Haiti is not the production of energy but the network needed to carry that electricity across the country to the people who need it.

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The wind picked the wrong day to knock down the power line in my neighborhood in Hinche Haiti. May 1st is a holiday in Haiti and EDH, the electric company, doesn't care about your emergency!

It rained in the city of Hinche Haiti like I've never seen before!

The director of EDH received many phone calls about this and so far no one from the electric company has shown up to lift the power line off the ground or the power cable off the tin roof of the neighbor.

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Taiwan news site reports... Taiwan and Haiti are expected to sign an agreement by the end of this year for the construction of a power grid in Port-au-Prince to alleviate the country's energy supply problems, a high-level government Taiwanese official said.

According to the Taipei Times, This electricity project is one of the initiatives being discussed by a bilateral high-level task force that was established to draft new terms of cooperation in accordance with a consensus reached between President Tsai Ing-wen and Haitian President Jovenel Moise during his visit to Taiwan in May.

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Besides talks about the price of gas going up in Haiti, there was a rumor spreading that the price of electricity is also about go up per kilowatt hour. Haiti's economy and Finance Minister says that is not true.

"There are no projections to increase the price of electrical energy in Haiti," the finance minister Jude Alix Patrick Salomon said.

What people may have confused is the fact that the Haitian government want to increase the billing rate of electricity in Haiti. By that they mean getting more people to pay their bills because many Haitians refused to pay for electricity as though it is a free gift from Mommy and Daddy.

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Haiti's Electric Company EDH announcs it will increase its power production by up to 130 megawatts during the 2018 FIFA World Cup season which is scheduled to begin on June 14th.

Haitians love soccer and the Government knows that and they want to make sure Haitians soccer fans are fully satisfied this World Cup year.

EDH director General Hervé Pierre-Louis is calling upon Haitian electricity customers to play their part by making their electricity payments.

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About 40 residents in the city of Hinche Haiti were arrested Monday for stealing electricity.

The electric company (EDH) brought in new technicians from Port-au-Prince who join forces with the national police force and local judge to arrest anyone caught stealing electricity.

If you have been stealing in electricity, if you have been rigging your electricity counter, time to be careful because EDH is not playing, they are arresting people and forcing them to pay a hefty fine for stealing electricity.

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Luis Alberto Moreno, president of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), did not hold back on his criticism of three private companies that supply electricity to National Electricity Company (Electricité d'Haiti - EDH). He demolished them, Le Nouvelliste says...

He is what Luis Alberto Moreno said according to Le Nouvelliste:

"There is no reason in today's world for the energy produced by the three private companies to be so expensive. This is something that needs to be addressed."