Without taking into account the departure of the first unit of the Felton thermoelectric plant, the UNE already estimated damage to more than 51% of the country.
LIMA, Peru – The Electrical Union (UNE) of Cuba announced the withdrawal of unit 1 of the Felton Thermoelectric Plant (CTE), a fact that will aggravate the energy effects this weekend on the Island.
“At 9:00 a.m., Unit 1 of the CTE Felton was offline due to high temperature in the bearing,” the state company detailed. via Facebook.
The fact further increases the already high forecast of blackouts for this November 22. Without taking into account the departure of Felton unit 1, the UNE already estimated impacts for 51% of the country.
According to the daily report, unit 2 of the CTE Felton and units 5 and 6 of the CTE Renté are currently damaged in Cuba.
Likewise, unit 2 of the CTE Santa Cruz, unit 4 of the CTE Cienfuegos are out of service for maintenance.
For this Sunday’s peak schedule, the UNE forecast an availability of 1,665 megawatts (MW) and a maximum demand of 3,280 MW, for a deficit of 1,615 MW.
If the expected conditions continue, the company predicted an impact of 1,685 MW during this time, which would leave more than half of the Island in the dark. Actual outages will exceed these figures given the recent departure of Felton unit 1.
The energy crisiswhich has been dragging on since mid-2024, is due to breakdowns in obsolete thermal power plants, scheduled maintenance, lack of fuel and lubricants, in addition to the paralysis of dozens of distributed generation engines and poor government management.
Latest protests over blackouts in Cuba
A new protest broke out last night in Mayarí, province of Holguín, where a group of neighbors gathered to demand the restitution of basic services such as water and electricity, affected since the passage of Hurricane Melissa at the end of October.
The demonstration, which took place in the town of Pontezuela, occurred spontaneously with pots and pans and protest slogans, as evidenced videos sent to this newspaper. Among the most heard cries was “We want current!”, which resonated along with other demands.
Sources of CubaNet They reported that the local mayor and an officer from the Cuban regime’s political police appeared at the scene. The authorities said they did not know the magnitude of the electrical damage and assured that the service could be restored in about two days.
These are the second protests reported from Mayarí in the last 48 hours. After almost a month living between blackouts, water shortages and the absence of a state response, the residents of Seboruco also decided to take to the streets to demand solutions.
The community, affected since the passage of Hurricane Melissa On October 28, 2025, he reported that he had to survive 23 days without basic services or government attention.
The protest, registered in images published by independent journalist José Luis Tan Estrada On his Facebook profile, he brought together dozens of neighbors who denounced to government representatives the institutional abandonment that, they claim, they have suffered since the impact of the cyclone.
“We have been without electricity for 23 days, without drinking water, drinking water from a contaminated dam and carrying water from the rivers. They turned on the current a few meters from here and nothing. Nobody has come to see anything, or to worry about the situation,” the residents expressed in one of the recordings released by Tan.
