MIAMI, United States. — The Cuban regime reported today on the arrival in Havana of a new 240 megawatt (MW) floating plant to support electricity generation on the island.
The news was announced on social networks by the Ministry of Energy and Mines, which showed images of the plant arriving at the Havana roadstead.
The new floating power plant, coming from Turkey, will be added to six other vessels of this type that allow other thermoelectric plants to be maintained.
The authorities of the energy sector have explained that floating power plants allow increasing the country’s national reserve and replacing the use of diesel, one of the most expensive fuels in generation.
The state press It highlights that the plant “will reinforce the capacities of the national electricity system which, although it presents a better situation than in previous months, still suffers from not a few tensions.”
Floating power plants have been the island’s regime’s response to the energy collapse that the country suffered throughout 2022.
Floating power plants are facilities that produce electricity and are located on ships or floating platforms rather than on land. These plants can use different sources of energy, such as fossil fuels, wind power or solar power, and are generally used in places where there is no easy access to the terrestrial electrical grid or to provide power to remote areas.
The first of these systems began to operate on the island in 2019, based on an agreement between the Cuban regime and the Turkish company Karadeniz Holding.
