Havana/So much enthusiasm with the installation of photovoltaic parks, which the press mentions as the solution to all the energy ills of the island, has made the Cuban authorities look for a pretext to wash their hands if, like so many other projects, That also fails. The thieves of panels and electrical components that, according to the ruling party, destroy with the photovoltaic parks, have become the perfect excuse.
The main objective is the solar panels that guarantee the supply of water in “isolated communities of the nation” and the perpetrators are “unscrupulous people who steal electrical installations and even solar panels, in order to obtain certain economic gains, without stopping to think about the damage they cause to the residents of those sites ”, Describe Granma.
The official body of the Communist Party says that, only in Holguín, “at least three pumping systems have been affected by robberies, among which the one carried out in the town of Pedernales, in the vicinity of the city of Holguín, where in two occasions were stolen the solar panels. ”
The authorities have concluded that “the rate of facts against the equipment of the photovoltaic pumping facilities has gone in advance”
The “inquiries” of the authorities have concluded that “the rate of facts against the equipment of the photovoltaic pumping facilities has gone in advance.” “These are technologies that are not in large parks, but in isolated places, in the vicinity of communities, which favors being harassed by unscrupulous people, who try to profit with collective goods,” said Alexander Valdespino, president of Cubasolar, which Promotes the use of renewable energy.
The company is particularly involved in cases, since it is the equipment that installs – deconed or financed many times by foreign governments and entities – those that end in the hands of thieves. Managers no longer know what to do with criminals and the robberies list continues to grow, Valdespino alleges.
“In Manantialito, belonging to the community of Rejondones de Báguanos, they installed one of those pumping systems, but after a while, the cables were stolen,” Narra Granma citing the leader. The same happened in Tacámara Cuatro, where the thieves loaded with “two bombs and the cables”, and in Playa Girón, where the loot was of a pump and “other components.”
In landing of the Granma, in Banes, the thugs were not so lucky: “They were close to taking the bomb, but when they were detected, they hurriedly retired with the cables,” said the medium, which attributed to the thieves the failure of the failure of the “Extraordinary effort that Cuba makes to improve the quality of life of the population.”
In recent years Cuba has installed dozens of solar parks financed by China, Russia or the European Union
In recent years Cuba has installed dozens of solar parks Financed by China, Russia, the European Union and even international institutions such as the United Nations. During that time, propaganda on the benefits of clean energy has not ceased in the official press, which forgot that despite the facilities of the equipment, the island has been reporting an energy deficit around 1,000 megawatts.
However, the robberies occurred reveal that Cubans have an interest in the panels that are slightly far from the wishes of the government and it is not the first time that Granma He launches to defend them by cape and sword alleging “crimes.” In December, the newspaper published information that revealed that the panels installed four months before to supply energy to many pumping stations in Las Tunas had already suffered “eight criminal acts, specifically theft”.
A few days before a fire in the Mayor Mayor Park, in Abraus, alarmed the Cienfuegos electricity company. The fire originated in an area where some solar panels were stacked that were going to be installed, but “no other resource outside this type suffered effects,” he said then September 5.
