A breakdown in the Naranjito substation has left most of the Havana municipalities without electricity.
Madrid, Spain.- Havana lived between Sunday night and early on Monday a new general blackout, the second in less than a month, after a breakdown of great magnitude in the Naranjito substation, as confirmed by official media and the Havana electricity company.
The ruling caused a chain effect that left numerous Havana municipalities without electrical service. “A recent breakdown in the Naranjito substation also affected the prince, melons and tallapiedra substations, causing effects on the electric service in some circuits of the capital municipalities of Arroyo Naranjo, Boyeros, October 10, Plaza de la Revolution, Cerro, Centro Habana, Havana Vieja, Play The electric company through its social networks.
The Ministry of Energy and Mines confirmed That the breakdown in the capital’s electricity grid also caused the exit of the National Electroenergetic System (SEN) of the Mariel 6 units, Energas and Moa motors, which had repercussions on the national generation. “You work on recovery and the causes are investigated,” the agency said in an official note.
According to the official media Cubadebatein the early hours of Monday the Moa to Sen engines were reconnected and the entrance of boosted energies progressed. The Havana Electric Company said that the restoration of the service in hospitals and water supply sources was prioritized, and that so far, electricity had been returned to areas such as Cerro Calzada, Plaza de la Revolution and October 10.
The official journalist Lázaro Manuel Alonso He also shared updates on Facebook, noting that all hospitals in the capital and the most important water supply points have already had electricity, although cuts persisted in other residential areas.
The situation refers to the general blackout occurred July 17also in Havana, when an electric shock damaged several substations, including Naranjito, and left a good part of the city without electricity for several hours.
Citizen complaints about the social effects of these blackouts, especially in areas that have remained without service for more than 35 hours, multiply. Among the consequences indicated by residents are the lack of drinking water, the impossibility of cooking without energy, the deterioration of food and the aggravation of the conditions in homes without ventilation, amid the intense heat of the summer.
This Sunday’s blackout evidence again the structural fragility of the Cuban electrical system, whose dependence on obsolete infrastructure, lack of maintenance, scarcity of technical and financial resources, added to the bad government management, continues to leave millions of people without access to basic services in the face of any network failure.
