Madrid/The “zero tolerance” recipe has spread in recent months to energy crimes. In the midst of February with blackouts that exceed 30 hours in a row, the authorities urgently seek to transmit a message of tranquility to contain an increasingly tired and annoying population of the lack of energy. The next ten days are foreseen: February 28 must synchronize with the National Electrical System (SEN) several of the solar parks that are rising in a hurry and running with Chinese aid. Until that moment comes, the slogan is to keep the population appeased.
To that idea points the proliferation of information that underpin the idea that the solution is close and that the government deals with the main concern of Cubans. After dedicating The program Let’s talk to this matter last week, this Monday, Cubadebate has reproduced a note published on Sunday by the official newspaper Invaderof the blind of Ávila, in which the measures taken against those who commit crimes that affect the energy situation of the country stand out.
In the text, which takes the opportunity to breastfeed that the province has a “high level of electrification” and efficient irrigation systems in its agriculture, it is admitted that the blind of Ávila is among the most affected territories “due to the incidence of crimes against the electricity generation ”.
Keilyn González Varela, Chief Prosecutor of the Department of Criminal Processes, said that between 2024 and what goes for a year there have The dielectric oil subtraction of transformers, fuels in structures of structures, as well as parts and parts of the assembly of photovoltaic solar parks ”.
One of the cases cited as an example is the theft of 6,625 liters of diesel in 2024 of the Cayo Coco generator, which “could have caused the suspension of about 10 hours of the electric service in more than three hotels in the tourist pole Jardines del Rey, ”he says, suggesting doubt.
The paragraph in which it raises – as an almost secondary issue – that “does not escape the damage”, since, by subtracting dielectric oil, “numerous families of an urban or rural community had suffered from prolonged blackouts, given the shortage of this equipment once collapsed. ”
The note also speaks of the case of the subtraction of screws, washers and nuts of a photovoltaic park in the blind of Ávila, a fact that also occurred identically in Matanzas. This, also in subjunctive, “would have incapacitated to achieve the ability to generate the electrical system about 21 megawatts (MW), once the work is completed,” says the text, which blames the facts to the high prices paid for these materials In the black market, derived from scarcity.
“The Prosecutor’s Office has zero tolerance with this type of crime from the sanction to request, as from the sanction to be imposed, including the measure of provision It announces severity and prevention policies in which mass organizations will collaborate with the police.
“The Prosecutor’s Office has zero tolerance with this type of crime from the sanction to request, as from the sanction to be imposed, including the measure of provisional prison, always starting from sabotage and bribery”
Also aimed at calming the population seems to reiterate a news that emerged for the first time in December 2024 and replicates Monday in official media. This is the help offered by Russia, valued at two million dollars to supply spare parts needed by thermoelectric plants. The interview, replicated in Rebellionit was resumed in recent days by various media and today it is also Cubadebate Who reviews it, highlighting that among the projects is the “construction of a 200 MW TPP (thermoelectric) energy unit, as well as the modernization of four existing units of 100 MW each”.
For this Monday, the forecast is again disastrous. With a demand of 3,280 MW and a generation of 1,450 MW, the deficit calculated for peak time is 1,520 MW. Unit 3 of Santa Cruz del Norte, the 6 of Renté and all Felton, with their two units. In addition, in maintenance are the unit 2 of Santa Cruz del Norte, the 3 and 4 of Cienfuegos and the 5 of Renté: a total of 293 MW in thermal generation.
This is joined by the lack of 330 MW in the generation distributed by the lack of fuel. “The president said it from day one,” said a Cuban in networks, “we are continuity and go for more. ‘ Obviously, he referred to more blackouts, inflation and shortage of food and medicines. Anyway, more misery. ”
