The Electrical Union has recognized that in Havana unscheduled outages often exceed nine hours a day.
LIMA, Peru – Cubans are living the final stages of 2025 amid massive blackouts, according to the official part of the Electrical Union (UNE) published this Saturday. The entity predicted that, during peak hours, the deficit will be 1,770 megawatts (MW) and the impact of 1,800 MW, despite having the highest availability in recent days.
“For the schedule, an availability of 1,510 MW is estimated and a maximum demand of 3,280 MW, for a deficit of 1,770 MW, so if the expected conditions continue, an impact of 1,800 MW is forecast for this schedule,” summarizes the UNE.
This level of impact is equivalent to approximately 55% of national demand.
The UNE also reported that on Friday “24-hour service was affected” and that the maximum impact was 1816 MW at 6:10 p.m.
Among the main incidents, the official note reported breakdowns in units 5 and 8 of the Mariel thermoelectric plant (CTE), Unit 2 of the Felton CTE, in addition to maintenance in Unit 2 of the Santa Cruz CTE and Unit 4 of the Carlos Manuel de Céspedes CTE in Cienfuegos.
The report also attributed part of the shortage to “limitations in thermal generation” due to 659 MW out of service and fuel restrictions: “89 distributed generation plants with 790 MW”, “108 MW in the Moa fuel plant” and “149 MW unavailable due to lack of lubricant”, for a total of 1,047 MW affected by this cause.
The Electrical Union has recognized that in Havana unscheduled outages often exceed nine hours a day, while in several provinces homes have only two to four hours of electricity each day. Added to this are successive failures of aging thermoelectric plants that have caused repeated national blackouts in less than a year, in the midst of the worst economic crisis in decades.
