{{Short description|Venezuelan electricity company}} {{Expand Spanish|date=July 2019}} {{Infobox company | name = Corporación Eléctrica Nacional, S.A. | logo = | image = Edificio corp.jpg | trade_name = CORPOELEC | type = State-owned enterprise | industry = Electricity | founded = {{start date and age|2007|07|31}} | founder = Hugo Chávez | hq_location_city = Caracas | hq_location_country = Venezuela | services = Electricity provider for all of Venezuela | subsid = Corpoelec Industrial | owner = Government of Venezuela | website = {{url|www.corpoelec.gob.ve}} }} '''Corporación Eléctrica Nacional, S.A.''', often known by its abbreviation '''Corpoelec''', is a fully integrated state power corporation of Venezuela. It was created in 2007 by merging ten state-owned and six private-owned power companies.<ref name=access300807> {{cite news | url= http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-32914382_ITM | title= Corpoelec to power Chavez's grand plans | publisher= Latin American Power Watch | date=2007-08-30 | accessdate=2009-07-30 }}</ref><ref name=access150807> {{cite news | url= http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-33273850_ITM | title= Chavez puts finishing touches on mega-utility | publisher= Latin American Power Watch | date=2007-08-15 | accessdate=2009-07-30 }}</ref> The former president of the company, from 2015 to 2019, was Luis Motta Domínguez, the Minister of Electricity and general of the Venezuelan Army.<ref name=eluniversal>{{cite news | url= http://www.ultimasnoticias.com.ve/noticias/comunidad/restituyen-servicio-electrico-en-80/ | title= Restituyen servicio eléctrico en 80% | publisher= Ultimas Noticias | author= ÚN | date= 2019-02-06 | accessdate= 2019-02-08 | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20190208052339/http://www.ultimasnoticias.com.ve/noticias/comunidad/restituyen-servicio-electrico-en-80/ | archive-date= 2019-02-08 | url-status= dead }}</ref> He was dismissed by President Nicolás Maduro in April 2019, following a series of blackouts that occurred in March 2019.
==See also== {{Portal|Venezuela|Energy}} *Electricity sector in Venezuela
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==External links== * {{Official website|https://www.corpoelec.gob.ve/}} {{in lang|es}}
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Category:Electric power companies of Venezuela Category:Venezuelan companies established in 2007 Category:Energy companies established in 2007 Category:Venezuelan brands Category:Public utilities established in 2007
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