MIAMI, United States. – In 2022, Cuba recorded a drop in electricity production “to levels never seen before,” the regime’s Minister of Energy and Mines, Vicente de la O Levy, said this week before the National Assembly of People’s Power.
In the first half of October, electricity availability reached “levels never seen before, reaching only 37.9%” of the total electricity production capacity installed on the island, the official specified.
The most critical days in terms of energy production deficit followed the general blackout on the night of September 27after the passage of Hurricane Ian through the province of Pinar del Río.
According to the Minister of Energy and Mines, the cyclone was the culmination of a series of difficulties, including breakdowns in important thermoelectric plants and the unprecedented fire at the Matanzas Supertanker Base. According to De la O Levy, these events placed Cuba’s electricity generation park “in its worst condition.”
In the first half of October, the level of affectation was 10 hours and 23 minutes of average blackout per daily user in the country, specified the AFP news agencybased on official data.
Meanwhile, in November that average decreased to six hours and 37 minutes. Currently, and according to the same official data, it only reaches two hours and 23 minutes per day per household.
According to De la O Levy, the island’s government “prioritized” residential areas and had to reduce energy supply to “the rest of the economy, including shops, services, and other vital activities.”
Due to the long and recurring blackouts, hundreds of Cubans took to the streets of the island to demand the restoration of electricity, which made the Havana regime fear a social outbreak like the one on July 11, 2021.
Before Parliament, Vicente de la O Levy explained that Cuba requires 250 million dollars for the operation and maintenance of its electrical system. On the island there are eight large thermoelectric plantsgenerators, seven floating plants that it rents to Turkey and, to a lesser extent, solar and wind energy units.
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