Madrid/The Santiago Rita Ruesga It was nominated on Wednesday by the Latin Academy of Arts and Sciences of the Grammy Award for the best children’s music album for Giraffes. It is a musical theater story that the artist defines as “full of hope for those who have to look for a dream beyond their homes.” The album, a mixture of styles as national as the son, the danzón, the rumba and the marches, is also “for mothers who, at some point, we must let our children fly far away.”
It is the fifth time that the artist, based in Miami for years and dedicated to the writing of books and children’s music, will opt for the golden gramophone, but this time, he says, there is something that distinguishes the nomination of previous occasions. “There is something unique in my project and that is that the musicians who recorded from Cuba did it when electricity arrived, with an empty stomach, but with the ideas and illusion of this project as a true serum of life,” he explained in a press release.
The Cuban plastic artist Iris Fundora has made the illustrations that accompany the album. And his contribution can not be more attached to the reality of the island. “He painted the illustrations of the giraffes in the night,” adds Rita Rosa, who dedicates the nomination – in some words sent to 14ymedio– To the Cuban part of the musical team and the founder itself, for its effort in the midst of a national crisis. “They are the true honorees.”
Details such as this perfectly illustrate the transversality of the energy emergency, which to overcome represents, in all areas, a constant event. Last night, just 40 kilometers from the hometown of Rita Rosa Ruesga (Palma Soriano), the city of Cabecera, Santiago de Cuba, lived another disconnection For the shot of a 110 kilowatt line that affected the substations Héctor Pavón, Santiago Norte and East. Although the technicians saved in just one hour the breakdown, the population continues to live indifferent to these events, which barely affect the long hours that spend without electricity.
“Here in the district today the current has not arrived since it left, at 6 am,” said a Santiago 24 hours later
“Here in the district today the current has not arrived since it left, at 6 am” – said a Santiago 24 hours later. What is the story? Too bad the government does not fall that is actually what should fall. ”It was one of the more than 150 comments to the Post of the provincial electricity company announcing the Failure arrangement. Most, warning of a daily average of 17 hours without light. This Tuesday, the 2,000 megawatts (MW) of affectation were exceeded and yesterday a 1990 deficit was scheduled, although finally the amount remained in some neglectable 1.885 MW, similar to the 1,830 scheduled for this Thursday.
Minister Vicente de la O Levy He appeared again Before the press to “update” the situation of the national electrical system, although he said absolutely nothing new, beyond the renewal of a date to solve the problems.
This time, the next horizon has been put on the weekend, when Felton 1 and I rent 5, and the successive days, when oils whose absence has favored the deficit – more pronounced than the fuel itself, he said – of distributed generation. The next is in October, with the incorporation of units 4 of the CTE Carlos Manuel de Céspedes (Cienfuegos) and 2 of Santa Cruz del Norte. But there is a shadow that clogged everything, and it is the exit of the Guiteras, in Matanzas, which will occur “in December, taking advantage of the period of lower electrical demand.” The increase in solar energy, during the hours of light, does not compensate for the moment, and even despite the fact that the power is already at 650 MW is still very scarce.
“According to the United Nations data, renewable energies occupied 30% of consumption in the electricity sector for the beginning of this decade. In our country, for those years they barely reached 4% of the generation,” recalls the economist Juan Triana Cordoví in an article that public This Wednesday Oncuba in which, although he grants that with the new data it has climbed quickly in photovoltaic, the lost time takes its toll.
The expert claims in that text the imperative need for the private sector to enter energy, putting as an example the positive “generation experience with a 100% foreign thermal power plant on Isla de la Youth”
The expert claims in that text the imperative need for the private sector to enter energy, putting as an example the positive “generation experience with a 100% foreign thermal power plant in Isla de la Youth” (now state). Triana Cordoví reviews all frustrated strategies, ranging from the failure of cane bioelectricas to the null investment in wind, the millionaire expense lost of the Turkish floating plants and the unsustainable subsidy to the electrical invoice, which is paid in pesos when the system requires dollars.
“I don’t think there is a unique solution, except for luck to accompany us, and that rarely happens,” he says after considering that any contribution, including a help to single -family panels, is good but a new comprehensive strategy is needed. “A long time ago since it is time to innovate in business models that contribute to the increase in generation and the improvement of the service, from the centrality of the State in their regulation,” he asks, since “having electricity and drinking water is not even with much a ‘small -Burger’ aspiration or an aristocratic banality.”
The economist’s article affects that two centuries of the industrial revolution are already fulfilled and that two simple elements were essential for this. “Access to water and energy has been a basic requirement for the pack of Homo sapiens It is radically distinguished from the other herds, ”he says. Cuba lacks both and that is why he cannot prosper.
And is that the water scarcityderived on the one hand of the weather and aggravated by the blackouts, affects more than 3.1 million people – 30% of the population – that suffer total or partial lack of the supply.
The situation is reaching the point that Cienfuegos already depends on Villa Clara to stock up. This Wednesday, both provinces announced an agreement to transfer water from the Hanabanilla dam at a beautiful pace, whose levels are in a very serious situation. Hanabanilla told this newspaper the bars of the reservoir, there are about 50% of their capacity, although it has lived worse times.
“The situation is complex and requires innovative measures,” said the governor of Cienfuegos Yolexis Rodríguez Armada. It is expected that tomorrow the water will begin through the use of pumping systems, while the population that does not waste and it responds with another demand is asked: “And the saliders, for when?”
