Corpoelec

{{Short description|Venezuelan Electricity Company}}

{{Expand Spanish|date=July 2019}}

{{Infobox company

| name = Corpoelec

| logo =

| image = Edificio corp.jpg

| native_name = Corporación Eléctrica Nacional, S.A.

| native_name_lang = es

| 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

}}

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.

{{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

}}

{{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

}} The former president of the company, from 2015 to 2019, was Luis Motta Domínguez, the Minister of Electricity and general of the Venezuelan Army.{{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

}} He was dismissed by President Nicolás Maduro in April 2019, following a series of blackouts that occurred in March 2019.