Havana/In the middle of the Third day From the fall of the National Electrical System (SEN) it is clear that the authorities celebrated too soon the “recovery” of the country. Much of the Cubans is still in a blackout or with an unstable service, and predict that they will spend another night in the dark.
In Havana, the authorities of the Electric Union reported, four of the six blocks that the city has are without service, including, according to confirming 14ymedioA Nuevo Vedado and San Miguel del Padrón. This writing also arrived from cuts in Sancti Spíritus, Holguín and Villa Clara that last several hours and bring a fall in the Internet connection.
As if that were not enough, the official media report the output of the system of Unit 3 of the Carlos Manuel de Céspedes thermoelectric plant, in Cienfuegos. “The complexizing the operation of the SEN and raises the effects due to generation capacity deficit in the country,” they admitted.
Block 5 of Renté, in Santiago de Cuba, which came to contribute 70 megawatts to Sen during this Friday, also unexpectedly came out of the system due to an automatism related to a boiler feeding valve. ” The authorities They assured They work so that in the afternoon you can connect again.
Block 5 of Renté, in Santiago de Cuba, which came to contribute 70 megawatts to Sen during this Friday, also came out “unexpectedly from the system”
At Ricardo’s house, 72, they avoid opening the freezer so that the little cold that protects food stored in the refrigerator does not escape. “My daughter had sent me, days before, a chicken box and now I can lose all that if electricity does not return before tomorrow Saturday,” he tells 14ymedio This resident in the Timba neighborhood, next to the Plaza de la Revolution.
The Havana has extreme measures. “My grandchildren have been going to school for three days, on Wednesday when the national blackout began they had just entered the classroom and my son was and looked for them, brought them for the house and they have not left here since then.” In the home of the family “you can count on the fingers of the hands of light” that we have had, regrets.
The affectation also goes directly to the pocket. Ricardo’s son makes a living with an electric tricycle that moves merchandise that customers buy in a central Havana hardware store. “It has no how to load it and the sale of materials is not working because the hardware store has no power plant,” clarifies the head of the family, which recognizes that it also has not bathed for three days due to the lack of water.
In buildings with more than 12 floors that abound in the new Vedado area, near the timba, neighbors living in high floors avoid going down because then they will have to use the stairs to return to the houses. “There are many old men here and all those steps down and then up,” said a neighbor of the pilot building on Factor Street.
The lack of water hits this heights especially because, although the tank has some reserve, the water pump has no electricity to function and fill the tanks located on the property. To carry cubes or blinks full of the stairs is not viable for many of the residents in the upper plants.
This Friday, consultations in the Polyclinic April 19 of the area were also suspended again. “That generator group has been broken but nobody has yet denounced it,” an employee responded to a frustrated patient who, for the second consecutive day, tried to be treated by an ophthalmological problem. The woman questioned the lack of energy support of the health center, although a huge electricity generation plant is visible on the side of her facade. To make it work, fuel is needed and there is either.
The lack of water hits these heights especially because, although the tank has some reserve, the water pump has no electricity to function
The critical situation has even motivated that rumors circulate in social networks that UNE will make a controlled disconnection of 72 hours. The electric company came out that the government intended to decree an “energy emergency” and denounced a misinformation campaign.
In response to the note, reproduced by Cubadebatethe first four comments from readers of the official media harshly criticized the authorities. “It is that there is some information that has a correlation with the reality that the Cuban lives today, because one thing is what official information says, but another is the reality that the Cuban lives.”
Another commentator ironized: “Good, it was a false news … but we continue with more than 20 hours without current.”
The comments also realized the resignation and tiredness of readers with phrases such as “total, the mass blackouts throughout the country have already occurred five times, and not to mention every day half of the country is off.” It is clear that Cubans know that the “stability” of Sen lasts until “breaks again.”
