About one-quarter of the population in Haiti has access to electricity. The national power utility, Electricité d'Haïti (EdH), operates one power transmission and distribution grid that serves the Port-au-Prince metropolitan area, and a number of smaller mini-grids in other areas of the country. Furthermore, EDH reports that four substations have been vandalized and looted by bandits, rendering them completely inoperable. In addition to these unforeseen circumstances, the E-Power company, facing serious technical difficulties, is only able to supply one-third of its production capacity. The largely government owned electricity sector in Haiti, referred to as Électricité d'Haïti (ED'H for "Haiti Electric Utility", faced a deep crisis characterized by dramatic shortages and the lowest coverage of electricity in the Western Hemisphere in 2006. The blackout, which began. In 2018, the average cost of electricity generation (both EDH-owned and purchased) was estimated at US $0.
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