The Antonio Guiteras thermoelectric plant did not last more than a few hours connected to the National Electric System (SEN). The Unión Eléctrica de Matanzas, where the plant is located, sent a message through its Telegram channel this Sunday afternoon to warn of the new “unforeseen” exit of the largest plant in the country due to an “imbalance caused by shots in the National Electric System (SEN), which activated the protection and took the unit out of service”.
In the announcement, the company adds that the technicians are working to reincorporate the largest power plant in the country into the system, which they describe as the “backbone of the Cuban electrical system”, despite the fact that so far this year it has stopped more days than expected has worked. La Guiteras should have returned to generate electricity after twelve days stopped due to a “technological failure.” Its previous exit from the system occurred on November 5, due to failures in the regenerative air heaters.
“You can’t put a new patch on old cloth, that’s what happens with the thermoelectric plants in our country. They haven’t finished mending a hole and they already have a tear”
“You cannot put a new patch on an old cloth, that is what happens with the thermoelectric plants in our country. They have not finished mending a hole and they already have a rip,” a reader of the Radio Ciudad del Mar page reacted on Facebook , the Cienfuegos station. Most of the users reacted annoyed by the little diffusion of the news, which has not been published in the official press for the moment.
“It really is not understood, if it does not have the conditions to provide service, then do not wear yourself out anymore, we have been on the same news for months, it starts and you do not have time to find out and it has already gone out of service again. I don’t care anymore motivate neither of the two things,” added another. “Nothing more similar to the story of the good pipe, it never ends and it exhausts the most patient and the most even-tempered”.
The plant has not given truce so far this year to the authorities, who no longer know how to deal with the situation of a plant that has become the symbol of the absolute debacle of the energy system.
Added to their situation is that of other plants, because units 4 and 5 of Antonio Maceo in Santiago de Cuba, unit 3 of Santa Cruz del Norte, in Mayabeque, and unit 5 of Nuevitas are not in service either.
The electrical problems have had repercussions, in a way not clarified by the National Electoral Council (CEN) in the “dynamic test” carried out this Sunday before the municipal elections on November 27. There was also the “absence of table authorities,” added the CEN without giving further details.
More than 180,000 people who were part of the electoral staff, 1,400 supervisors and some 24,000 collaborators participated in the exercise, according to Granmawhich added the persistence of “problems with fuel” and that “the ballot boxes were not located in all the schools,” said the CEN.
“They also failed to expose photos and biographies of candidates in the constituencies. This week it is expected to solve all the problems identified,” concluded Alina Balseiro Gutiérrez, president of the CEN, quoted by Granma.
The test began at 7 this Sunday and ended two hours later in 23,480 polling stations in the 12,427 constituencies of the country
The test began at 7 this Sunday and ended two hours later in 23,480 polling stations in the 12,427 constituencies of the country.
With this situation as a backdrop, Miguel Díaz-Canel arrived in Moscow this Sunday to meet his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, after a long stopover in Algeria, in his desperate search for oil, wheat and fertilizers.
Díaz-Canel, who has shown his support for the Kremlin since the start of the Russian military campaign in Ukraine, last visited this country in 2019. For his part, Putin visited the island as soon as he came to power in 2000 and a few years ago. a few years it canceled almost all the external debt contracted by Cuba with the USSR.
The Cuban ruler achieved in Algeria the cancellation of outstanding interest on Cuba’s debt and the postponement of its repayment “until further notice” to alleviate the economic impact suffered by the island due to the pandemic.
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