Havana/Holguín/The “gradual recovery” of the National Electrical System (SEN) that has been announcing days ago The Electric Union does not just materialize. On Saturday, the maximum affectation was 1,850 megawatts (MW), more than half of what the country requires in maximum demand. For today, although a little lower, the deficit remains critical: from 1,775 MW for peak schedule.
“Incredible as it may seem, the situation with the current has been getting worse since the SEN was reconnected,” Mariano explains 14ymediofrom Holguin. The early morning of Saturday the province was the scene of a protest in the municipality of Gibarawhere the residents asked to re -establish the service to shouts and cacerolazos in the streets.
The protest, explains Mariano, “calmed down with a little tooth of the authorities”, but in the province you breathe discontent and tension. “Yesterday all the blocks advanced the planned blackouts regardless of the schedule of forecast cuts published by UNE,” he says.
So many days without current has worsened access to basic resources. “Another critical aspect here is water. In my area, which did not go even in the worst times, more than 15 days ago they do not put it. The individuals are charging 100 pesos for a 20 -liter drinking water container,” he says.
In Havana, which is usually from the prioritized provinces, the six blocks that are distributed throughout the city were affected during the early morning
In Havana, which is usually from the prioritized provinces, the six blocks that are distributed throughout the city were affected during the early morning, and the first residents to recover the service did so at 2:30 in the morning. Many others are still without light.
At the same time, the whole country experiences Internet connection problems and even coverage, which makes communication between family difficult. Resident in Miami, Laritza says that from very early in the morning she does not communicate with her husband, who lives in New Vedado. “It seems that he is in a blackout because I can’t communicate with him. We talked early and told me that he had taken his light all morning.”
From Matanzas a complaint came to this wording for the situation of circuit 662 of selected fruits. The complaint, which have also published several users on social networks, highlights that since Wednesday – although the UNE has declared the SEN restored throughout the country – the area has only had two hours of service.
“We have gone to the Government and the UNE office and do not answer us. We no longer know what to do,” wrote one of the residents of the area.
Contrary to what Cubans live, UNE insists that the situation improves, and celebrated The incorporation into the system of two generating units of the 16 that the island has, distributed in seven thermoelectric plants, being seven still inactive.
Contrary to what Cubans live, UNE insists that the situation improves, and celebrated the incorporation into the two -generating units system of the 16 that the island has
According to the daily part of the state company, these are units 3 and 5 of Renté (Santiago de Cuba) and the 2 of Felton (Holguín), which are damaged, in addition to Mariel’s 5, the 1st of the Felton, the 2 of Santa Cruz del Norte (Mayabeque) and the 4 of Carlos Manuel de Céspedes (Cienfuegos), which are in maintenance.
To raise the spirits, the official press released this Sunday the news about the inauguration the previous afternoon of a New Solar Park in CabaiguánSancti Spíritus. Ramiro Valdés was present at the ceremony, a figure whose presence – as with the sporadic appearances of Raúl Castro – is intended to impose order and calm in the critical situation of the country.
The panels will pay up to 21.8 MW al Sen provided that the climate – luvious in recent days in Sancti Spíritus – allows it. According to Cubadebate“The installation already provides clean energy to the national electrical system since last August, when it concluded its initial synchronization after the installation of 42,588 panels spread over an area of 32 hectares.”
According to UNE, on Saturday the 30 active photovoltaic parks on the island contributed 2,968 MWh, “with 567 MW as maximum power delivered at the average schedule”, a significant help during the day, but which disappears completely at dusk, precisely when the maximum consumption hours begin.
Although the Antonio Guiteras thermoelectric – which caused the national blackout last Wednesday – is stable and connected to the SEN, the capital reparation that is coming for the central makes fear for a darker year than ever. This week, during the issuance of the table round, the authorities announced that the Matancera installation, the most important in the country, will be at least six months subject to unplayable maintenance.
