After more than 11 hours since this morning Cuba suffered its second total disconnection of the National Electric System (SEN) so far this year, the Cuba Electric Union ensures that it already manages to provide 500 MW of energy, focused on allowing the restoration of other generating units that promote the gradual recovery of electricity in the country.
This figure represents a very low percentage, compared to the nearly four thousand mega watts that the country usually demands at night.
Not 20% of the country then arrives with electric service to the first night of this new fall of the SEN that occurred after an unforeseen exit of the Antonio Guiteras thermoelectric plant in the province of Matanzas, caused by a failure in its operation.
Rubén Campos Olmos, director of the Antonio Guiteras Thermoelectric Central explained to Cuban television that the unit of the unit offered a false signal in the value of overheated steam pressure, causing the shot to protect the turbine.
The general director of Electricity of the Ministry of Energy and Mines, Lázaro Guerra, explained in the stellar news of the Cuban television that at 8 o’clock on Wednesday they were in the process of starting the units 8 of the thermoelectric of Mariel, Unit 3 of Santa Cruz and Unit 3 of Carlos Manuel de Céspedes de Cienfuegos.
He also assured that the national system is linked from Boca de Jaruco to Mariel and a central system that connects Varadero Energy with the planned start of the aforementioned unit in the Cienfuegos thermoelectric plant.
In turn, a microsystem in the province of Camagüey will allow the start of the Unit of Nuevitas, which although it has not begun, the energy necessary to start the process has already come there.
Guerra said that microsystems throughout the country have guaranteed energy in vital sectors such as health and that Antonio Guiteras thermoelectric plant has already solved its failure and is ready to start as soon as it is possible to send the energy that allows it.
The general director of Electricity assured that the reconnection process is being carried out without complications and according to the planned strategy, but did not give details of when the service would be restored for the entire island.
This is the fifth fall of SEN since October 2024, the result of a crisis caused mostly by the aging of the energy generating infrastructure in Cuba, and by the constant fuel faults.
