Havana/What was About to spend on Saturday It happened this Tuesday early. The Energas de Boca de Jaruco plant, in Mayabeque, was out of service for the entrance of Sargazo into one of its channels. The failure of this thermal, which normally contributes to the National Energy System (SEN) between 100 and 120 megawatts (MW), joins the breakdown, also today,
In the Central Antonio Guiteras, in Matanzas, the most important in the country, which has left her out of service.
The problem occurred in the boiler around nine in the morning, according to the authorities, specifically “a false superheated steam pressure signal, an element of the automatic unit of the unit.”
“Identified the fault” in La Guiteras published After noon Cubadebate“The starting process began at the Matanzas Central.” However, the SEN synchronization process could still take between two and three hours.
The thermoelectric plants of the country operate on Tuesday around a quarter of their installed capacity due to breakdowns and maintenance stoppages
The thermoelectric plants of the country operate on Tuesday around a quarter of their installed capacity due to breakdowns and maintenance stoppages. In addition to energas and the Guiteras, the thermoelectric (CTE) Antonio Maceo, known as La Renté, in Santiago de Cuba, is out of service.
But it happens that the remaining four centrals are not at the maximum of their capacity, because they all operate with units out of service and with decreased capabilities in the CTEs that are active. The contribution of these is, at most, about 689 MW, when the total installed power of those centrals is 2,500 MW.
According to today’s part of the Electric Union of Cuba (UNE), Unit 2 of the Felton (Holguin), the 1, 2 and 3 of Santa Cruz (Mayabeque), Mariel’s 8 (Artemisa) and the 4th of Carlos Manuel de Céspedes (Cienfuegos) are on low.
In the case of Felton, with 24 years of exploitation and one of the country’s largest CTE, it has an installed capacity of 510 MW in two blocks, but currently serves the system about 180 MW for only one of them. The “unforeseen” departure of the Guiteras, with 37 years of exploitation, suddenly subtracted about 250 MW of contribution to SEN, although its original capacity was 330 MW.
Thus, it is likely that the forecast of the part is short. For peak schedule, in the afternoon, the forecast is in principle an availability of 1,730 MW for a maximum demand of 3,400 MW, which will be a deficit of 1,670 MW and a real affectation calculated in 1,740 MW.
While there are already 32 Chinese photovoltaic parks installed, they only deliver a maximum of 591 MW, and always during daytime. The new hope is the “asticar Pinar”, which It is built at full speed and with the maximum secrecy in the port of Havana.
As he checked 14ymedioit is not a floating central in the style of the eight that the Turkish company Karpowership had, but a structure on land, located in the Caribbean shipyards of the capital, which has been built in recent months. The nine engines, with their respective chimneys – only six are installed at the moment – could have a capacity of between 135 and 180 MW. The Turkish Floating Central Suheyla Sultan -that He left in August leaving the rule alone – it had a power of 240 MW.
