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Abstract: The Honduran legislation allows the creation and operation of an electric market that recognizes private participation in generation, distribution and free access to the transmission grid. However, such legislation has not been implemented to its fullest causing that the electric market in Honduras to be poorly developed, with the investments needed for its suitable operation delayed. The following paper presents a summary of the Legislation and structure of Honduras’s electric market and the weakness in the current regulatory framework. Additionally, suggestions for possible regulatory changes, which are needed to improve the electric market, are established. These changes must be consistent with the standards found in any process of buying and selling a commodity, especially one so essential and strategic for the development of any Nation, as is electricity. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

The high consumption of firewood in Honduras necessitates the search for alternatives with less-negative effects on health, the economy, and the environment. One of these alternatives has been the promotion of improved cooking stoves, which achieve a large reduction in firewood consumption. This paper presents a cost-benefit analysis for an improved cooking stove adoption strategy for Honduras. The methodology uses the Long-range Energy Alternatives Planning System, LEAP, a tool used globally in the analysis and formulation of energy policies and strategies. The energy model considers the demand for firewood as well as the gradual introduction of improved cooking stoves, according to the premises of a National Strategy for improved cooking stoves adoption in Honduras. Hence, it is demonstrated that the costs of implementing this adoption strategy are lower than the costs of not implementing it, taking into consideration representative scenarios up to and including the year 2030. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]