Havana/With the successive stops he has had in the last week, no one is surprised that the thermoelectric plant Antonio Guiteras de Matanzas, the largest generation in the country, has not been able to connect to the national electrical system (SEN) this Friday as planned. Since last Monday, when he discounted after just a few hours of operation, the central is in repairs
In networks, users do not bother, as on other occasions, to ask about the new reincorporation date. Everyone knows what to stick to: “prolonged blackouts that prevent the normal development of our daily activities. ”
This time, the problem is a “failure” in the boiler detected while doing a hydraulic test – irutinar after each repair – “on the right side wall, at the height of the third level of burners. It complicates a little more because you have to put together a bamba to climb up to 20 meters high, where the problem is, ”he told Girón The general director of the Central, Rubén Campos.
The official puts the deadline for repairing in “the dawn” this Saturday
According to the manager, repairs must take about 10 hours from the detection of the failure, at 7:00 am. “Then we always do a small hydraulic test, and if nothing is detected, we start the ignition,” he adds. In practice, at 5:00 pm on Friday the Guiteras should be ready to take action, but the official sets the deadline in “Tomorrow’s Sawn.”
Fields, whose subordinates work in the reconnection of the central since last Monday when He left the Sen for a breakage of the boilersays the ruling was predictable. “We had many suspicions that there could be something, due to the experience of many years. When the boiler suffers a stop of those characteristics, it usually cracks at some point because they are tensions at high temperatures, and those tensions are often evacuated by lowering the iron mass and ends up affecting the [zonas] Weak, which are the pipes. That is why we always said that the hydraulic test was decisive. If it had been well, we already had two burners in service. ”
Before Monday, the Guiteras had already left SEN on Sunday, February 2 and in a few hours he managed to return and disconnect again. The instability of its generation gives the measure of the state of the central.
Campos sees with hope the entrance to Sen on the morning of this Friday of the Felton, in Santiago de Cuba
However, Campos sees with hope the entrance to SEN on the morning of this Friday of the Felton, in Santiago de Cuba, which was receiving a programmed maintenance since January 30. “The works are conceived for ten days and include cleaning air heaters in boiler and condenser, as well as review of two turbine chumaceras,” said the director of the Central.
According to Campos, “Felton 1 turned on the boiler, which means good news, because it must be for peak schedule. When Felton is online removes almost five hours of blackout, Guiteras equals six hours. ” The difference between the generation of a thermoelectric or another, however, remains irrelevant to Cubans, who will have prolonged blackouts in any way.
For this day, the electric union provided for a deficit of 1,436 megawatts during peak schedule. That, of course, before the Guiteras announced its absence at the time of maximum demand.
