INDE is a state-owned, autonomous, and decentralized entity, which enjoys functional autonomy, its own assets, legal personality, and full capacity to acquire rights and enter into obligations in matters within its jurisdiction.
INDE was created on May 27, 1959, under decree number 1,287 of the Congress of the Republic.
It is currently governed by its Organic Law, decree 64-94, and by the General Electricity Law, regulations that served as a basis for the separation of functions: Electric Power Generation Company (EGEE), Electric Power Transport and Control Company (ETCEE), Electric Power Marketing Company (ECOE), Corporate Entity, and Electric Power Distribution Company of the East and West. The latter were disincorporated from the institution in 1999.