Madrid Spain.- The Antonio Guiteras Thermoelectric Power Plant (CTE), in Matanzas, was synchronized to the National Electroenergetic System (SEN), reported this Friday afternoon the Electric Union of Cuba (UNE).
The thermoelectric plant had been out of service since last Tuesday, according to the authorities, as a result of contamination and a decrease in the flow of raw water after valve manipulation operations at the Matanzas supertanker base.
The director of the plant, Misbel Palmero Aguiar, quoted by Cubadebatespecified that “the blockade would increase the load until its delivery stabilized above 220 MW”.
Palmero also indicated that “the biggest challenge is to maintain the flow of water due to the high consumption of the liquid that has been registered for just under a month, due to a possible crack in the boiler.”
The UNE has limited the comments in its publication on the new restoration of the CTE Antonio Guiteras, presumably due to the avalanche of discontent comments that they usually have.
However, the Cubans also commented on the publication shared by other users; fundamentally questioning how long the thermoelectric plant will be in operation again.
“Let’s see how long that lasts”; “A prize for whoever guesses how long it remains active in the system,” say the Cubans.
On Monday the CTE Antonio Guiteras was also outside the NSS due to lack of fuel. Only 17 minutes after its reset, on Tuesday, the authorities returned to report another failure for “unknown causes”.
Also this week the CTE Antonio Maceo (Renté), in Santiago de Cuba, stopped working due to a leak in the boiler.
For several months, the repeated outages and repairs of the main thermoelectric plants in the country, the main source of food for the SEN, have prevented the normal operation of the electrical service, with the consequent balance of blackouts, increasingly unsustainable for the inhabitants of the Island, who have decided to take to the streets on different occasions, as a sign of their discontent.
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