The Electric Union (UNE) on Friday ruled out the existence of a three -day general blackout plan, a rumor that has circulated in recent hours.
“The national electrical system is stable, so it has not declared an energy emergency,” said the entity in a publication in Facebook.
The journalist Lázaro Manuel Alonso also denied in the same social network the reports on the alleged blackout of 72 hours, although he acknowledged that generation deficit effects persist.
The communicator also confirmed the exit of Unit 3 of the Carlos Manuel de Céspedes, Cienfuegos thermoelectric plant, a fact that raises the effects of generation capacity deficit in the country.
With all Cuban provinces already linked to SEN, the Cuban authorities recognized Thursday that it is in “weak conditions.”
The Minister of Energy and Mines, Vicente de la O Levy, said in the Round table that the total collapses of the electrical system, such as The occurred in the morning On Wednesday, they are “the worst” that can happen to an electricity company, but pondered the work done by workers in the sector to link the country again “as soon as possible.”
To the repeated problems of thermal generation, the loss of power in the western zone is also added due to the exit of most of the Turkish patanas With what the island counted, the last one – and the one with the greatest capacity that the country had (240 MW) – at the beginning of August, recalled the head of the Minen.
La Guiteras to Maintenance for six months
This Friday it was announced that the Antonio Guiteras Thermoelectric Centralwhose “unforeseen departure” this week triggered a new fall of the National Electrical System (SEN), will soon be maintenance capital with a view to solving accumulated problems for years.
The work in the largest unit block in Cuba – which suffered another fault on Thursday, although it could be reconnected – will begin at the end of 2025 and will run for six months, according to Alfredo López Valdés, general director of the UNE, who did not specify an exact date for the disconnection of the Guiteras.
During an intervention in the program Round table, The manager explained that deep work will be carried out in the boiler, which must improve its operation in the future, but clarified that “it cannot be said that it will be a new boiler”, since all its elements will be replaced.
Among the planned works is the complete change of the reheating – which, as detailed, “has 15 kilometers of pipe” -, as well as an important part of the regenerative heaters, the air and gase ducts, the burners and the pumps of the economizer.
