El Salvador energy storage home

Who owns El Salvador's electricity?

CEL is an independent, public electric utility in charge of developing, conserving, managing, and using the energy resources of El Salvador. Clean energy is generated in four hydropower plants located at diferent points in the Lempa River basin. ETESAL is El Salvador’s transmission system owner.

What is the energy supply in El Salvador?

In 2019, total energy supply in El Salvador reached around 156 600 TJ (see Figure 5). That year, the renewable energy source with the largest share as part of the primary energy supply was bioenergy (19.6%), followed by hydropower (3.5%), geothermal energy (3.4%), and solar energy (1.1%) (CNE, 2020).

Where does El Salvador's energy come from?

Energy context The bulk of El Salvador’s primary energy comes from fossil fuels. As shown in Figure 4, the total energy supply sources since 2010 have mainly been oil derivatives, such as gasoline, diesel, liquid petroleum gas (LPG), kerosene and bunker fuel (CNE, 2020).

What is El Salvador's Energy Cabinet?

The Energy Cabinet is composed by the Presidential Commissioner for Operations and Government Cabinet, MINEC, CNE, CEL, SIGET and the DC. Until the 1990s, El Salvador maintained a vertically integrated structure in its power sector, with CEL as the country’s only state-owned generator.

How much electricity is produced in El Salvador?

The institution currently has a total installed capacity of 204.4 MW and a net production equivalent to 21.8% of the electrical energy produced in El Salvador. CECSA, a CEL subsidiary, is a company dedicated to the generation of electrical energy through small hydropower plants.

Does El Salvador have a national energy policy?

Institutional structure of energy sector El Salvador’s National Energy Policy 2020-2050 was still being developed by CNE at the time of this report’s release, with a publishing date of later in 2020. At time of writing, the existing national energy policy was thus still the one published by the Council in 2010 (CNE, 2010).