Madrid Spain.- Energy expert Jorge Piñon predicted the total collapse of the electric system Cuban and commented on the mismanagement of the regime that has contributed to the current energy crisis that the country is going through.
Piñón, who is director of the Energy Program for Latin America and the Caribbean at the University of Texas, in an interview with Radio Television Marti, He pointed out: the Cuban government “cannot continue with this band-aid policy, of dealing with the thermoelectric generating plants that they now rent from Turkey… In other words, a structural recapitalization is needed.”
During a recent presentation of the research “Cuban Energy in Transition: Geopolitical Scenarios,” Piñon explained that the regime has wasted important investments and agreements with different countries.
“In 2014, an agreement with Inter-RAO of Russia was announced and signed in 2016 for 1,300 million euros for the construction of four units of 200 megawatts each for a total of 800 megawatts, three for Havana del This one and one for Mariel and here we are. My question to the Cuban Government is; What happened to that agreement that was signed in 2016 with Inter RAO?” Piñón questioned.
The specialist, born in Cuba and based in the United States, also referred to a 140 million dollar project, with investments from a British company and Azcuba, to build the biomass plant at the Ciro Redondo power plant.
“That plant was finished in December and was ready to operate in December 2021. You know what? It is not operating. Why is it not operating? Because there is no cane. They don’t even have marabou”, she specified.
Regarding the justifications of President Miguel Díaz-Canel, who blames the embargo for the current situation of the electrical system, Piñón assured: “It is not the result of the embargo but of the State’s mismanagement of the energy sector.”
Díaz-Canel has also declared that Cuba does not have the electrical capacity “for what the life of the population is demanding,” but that “the government makes every effort to affect the population as little as possible.”
The country’s energy crisis, which has been increasing in recent months, has caused demonstrations in different regions of the island. Such is the case of the student protest at the “Ignacio Agramonte” University of Camagüey and the saucepan in the town of Manzanillo, in the province of Granma; both in the month of June.
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