Havana/For Cubans, Lent does not end at the same time as in the rest of the world. Especially if it is energy, the thermoelectricas of the island seem to never reach Easter, and the resurrections promised by the Government for the National Electrical System (SEN) never take place: for this Sunday the forecast deficit It is 1,766 megawatts (MW), 52% of national demand.
“The Lord had to resurrect in the dark,” Rubén, a neighbor from the Luyanó neighborhood, in Havana, who from noon suffers a blackout, less than 24 hours after finishing the previous one. “And that I live in the hospital circuit.” He, like all Cubans, has learned to live pending the cuts, reconnections and escases of the SEN and the geography and nomenclature of the thermoelectricities have been learned by heart.
If the more than 1,700 MW of this Sunday’s deficit does not surprise Rubén, he explains, it is because since Saturday he knew about the output of the unit 1 of the Felton Central, in Holguín.
Scheduled to start on Saturday, Felton was stopped by an “unforeseen” breakage. As the authorities have explained, a salide in the boiler who had not been detected before by the steam caused the disconnection. The thermoelectric had just over a month running since its last breakdown in early March that kept her out of the game for four days.
This weekend was also found in unit 5 of Nuevitas, in Camagüey, which according to UNE has contributed to the affectation “superior to the planned.” However, Saturday’s deficit, which at its peak reached 1,678 MW, remains scandalous.
This weekend was also found in unit 5 of Nuevitas, in Camagüey, which according to UNE has contributed to the affectation “superior to the planned”
The company also explained that there are 79 MW affected by the output of electricity generation engines due to lack of diesel or fuel, in addition to another 77 structure groups due to the same cause.
For this year the Capital repair From the largest central of the island, Antonio Guiteras de Matanzas. According to the Minister of Energy and Mines, Vicente de la O Levy, the intervention could last between eight and ten months. “The Rotors of Guiteras do not open since that breakdown in 2004. Then, he takes the account. Since 2004 he had to have already made two capital repairs, and he has not done any,” he said weeks ago about the calamitous state of the only thermoelectric of French technology, which is also the most powerful unit in the country.
Other interventions, about six months, in this Havana 2, of Santa Cruz del Norte (Mayabeque), and in Renté 5, of Santiago de Cuba are also planned. In addition, Felton 2, lost “completely” after the fire of 2022, has begun its comprehensive rehabilitation, “a gigantic engineering project” that will last two years, whose accountant began to run a long time ago, although the minister did not clarify when.
With only two Pin Turks – from the eight that it had generating energy in its waters – and its largest central out of service, the government is betting everything to the Solar parks which has begun to build throughout the country with the financial and technical support of China.
