For years, educated émigrés...have tried hard to play a more vital role in Haiti’s development, with little success.

From Wikipedia

-shortages, those with access approx. 10hrs per day

-35% of produced energy is tapped informally

-power from the grid is quite expensive

-lowest coverage of electricity in the Western Hemisphere

-EdH monopoly system

-12.5% of the population (25% with informal connections) regular access to electricity, in Port-au-Prince 45%

-2007 -- total capacity 270 MW, 70% thermal (high dependence on oil!), 30% hydroelectric

-in 2003 electricity consumption 510 GWH

 Dewey Library – HC153.S63