MIAMI, United States. – In the midst of a new wave of blackouts, this Saturday the service was affected due to a generation deficit throughout the day, reported the Electrical Union (UNE) of Cuba. The maximum impact, as he specified, occurred during peak hours, from 9:50 p.m. to 10:48 p.m.
The UNE confirmed that units 6 and 7 of the CTE Máximo Gómez, the CTE unit Otto Parellada, unit 3 of the CTE Ernesto Guevara, unit 4 of the CTE Diez de Octubre and the unit 5 of the CTE Antonio Maceo.
Meanwhile, unit 2 of the CTE Lidio Ramón Pérez is undergoing maintenance.
For the peak hours of this Sunday, the UNE estimates an availability of 2,671 MW and a maximum demand of 2,620 MW, for a reserve of 51 MW, so due to the low reserve levels there is a risk of affectations to the service in this schedule. No damage is expected in the early morning hours, the agency said.
Recently, the UNE reported that the numerous failures of its main thermoelectric plants would continue causing massive blackouts throughout the national territory.
In the middle of June the Cuban ruler Miguel Díaz-Canel appeared on national television to discuss the energy crisis that has affected Cubans for several months.
According to the official, Cuba does not have the electrical capacity “for what the life of the population is demanding,” but “the government makes every effort to affect the population as little as possible.”
Regarding the long hours of blackouts, he explained that there are peaks at noon and between 9:00 and 10:00 at night, which hinders the behavior of electricity consumption.
“Why do we basically turn off at those times when cooking is taking place and people are at home? Because it is precisely when there is more demand, and we do not have the capacity for what the life of our population is demanding, ”she specified.
“As long as the blackouts continue and we continue to feel the inconvenience,” he said, including himself among those who suffer from this situation, “the dissatisfactions will continue and it will be difficult to change the states of opinion.”
Regarding the poor state of the country’s thermoelectric plants, he declared: “An investment in thermoelectric plants is extremely expensive and takes years. Immediately it is not possible to mount a thermoelectric plant. It takes between four and five years of investment”.
“However, Cuba is making a negotiation with a friendly country to have three, maybe four, new generation blocks; but it is not an investment that we can immediately dispose of,” he added.
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