The Electrical affectation Follow the clouds in Cuba, triggered by the outputs of generating units and the chronicle lack of fuel.
This Wednesday four plants disconnected from the National Electric System (SEN), one of which had just synchronized: Unit 3 of Renté.
That block of Santiago de Cuba had to join before yesterday’s peak sched As reported Electric union (UNE).
Shortly before, at 5:38 PM had synchronized another Renté unit, the 6, which had left in the morning for the same cause, while at 11:00 at night I entered the SEN unit 6 of Energy of Jaruco’s mouth, which had been hours before for a “circulation pump shot”.
More serious seems to be the breakdown of unit 5 of the Mariel’s thermoelectric plant, which was also disconnected before the night peak by a salide in the boiler, according to the UNE.
In this critical scenario, the peak of electrical affectation arrived on Wednesday until 1906 MW at 8:40 at night, again a figure higher than the Prior official estimated.
This Thursday
Seven thermal blocks dawned on Thursday outside the SEN, although according to the UNE two of them, units 3 and 5 of Renté must be incorporated for the night peak.
By then none of the 638 MW that were out today due to lack of fuel and lubricants in the distributed generation should be available. Therefore, the availability will barely increase to 1740 MW, if the planned blocks enter and no other breakdown occurs.
As for the affectation, at 6:00 am it was already 1190MW and at noon it will descend slightly to 1150 MW with the contribution of the new solar parks, which yesterday delivered 565 MW as maximum power in that time slot.
Already at night, the affectation will climb up to 1810 MW and could even be greater to occur or to overcome the demand for the prognosis of the UNE (3480 MW), although even if the blackouts are not so they will punish Cubans again throughout this Thursday and at night they will simultaneously affect a good part of the country.
