MIAMI, United States. – The provincial and municipal directorates of Education throughout the country reported on the suspension of classes this Friday due to the electricity generation deficit, which has worsened even more in the last week.
“Classes throughout the country are suspended this Friday due to the energy situation. The course will restart next Monday,” he specified on his Facebook profile the official journalist Lázaro Manuel Alonso.
During a television appearance on Thursday night, the prime minister of the Cuban regime, Manuel Marrero Cruz, addressed the country’s critical energy situation. The official pointed out that “there are three important factors that affect the electricity generation deficit: the state of the infrastructure, the lack of fuel and the increase in demand.” Of these, the one that affects the most is the lack of fuel, said the prime minister.
Marrero explained that, as a government policy, the residential sector has been prioritized, stopping certain economic activities to guarantee electricity in homes. However, so far all provinces, except Havana, only have around three hours of electricity per day.
The prime minister suggested that the situation could begin to improve starting this Friday, when a fuel ship arrives in the country. “Starting tomorrow, the situation should improve with the unloading of a fuel oil ship,” the official said. In addition, he indicated that the delivery of an additional 2,000 tons of diesel is expected, which will allow the distributed generation engines to return to work.
On the other hand, the general director of the Electrical Union (UNE), Alfredo López, announced that in the short term there will be technical stops at the Felton and Guiteras thermoelectric plants for maintenance, but did not specify dates.
This Thursday, the UNE advertisement that the blackouts would simultaneously cover almost 51% of the national territory during peak hours (evening-night). The impact on the electrical service exceeded that of previous days and marked a historical record at least since the call Special Period.
According to reports on social networks, most Cuban provinces only have three hours of electrical service a day. This panorama has caused stupor and frustration among Cubans.
“Let them close everything, the schools and workplaces or, rather, the entire country,” wrote the user Digna Niebla Noble in the forum of a publication of CubaNet on Facebook. “They should remove it completely [la corriente eléctrica]so we know that we do not have to suffer, and that they turn off our lives once and for all, excuse me, this is not life,” said Judith Ortiz Charon.
