Madrid/In Cienfuegos, the synchronization of the Mayor Mayor Photovoltaic Park is expected as a May water in May, announced for the 28th of this month. “Surely it will generate current for 31,” he replied with a sneer, on social networks, a user in a Post Published by the province’s electricity company ensuring that the entire weekend was worked to move towards that end. Tired of promises, residents in a province that is suffering Altages up to 21 hours Daily do not plan to believe until they see.
The Cienfuegos Solar Park, which suffered a fire last December, concluded in the middle of that month the assembly of the tables and, so far this year, the publications in networks on the advances in the installation are common. Mayor must contribute to the National Electrical System (SEN) 21.8 megawatts in its maximum power (MWP), as each and every 92 parks that Cuba builds with Chinese support, a contribution that Beijin has forced to send technicians for alleviate the Cuban staff deficiencies.
Of those 92 parks, 55 are scheduled for this year, as Alfredo López Valdés, general director of the Electric Union (UNE), in a meeting at the Palace of the Revolution where commitments on energy matters recalled on Monday. The photovolletic must generate 1,200 MW in late 2025, of which 200MW will be incorporated into SEN.
Photovolthate must generate 1,200 MW in late 2025, of which 200MW will be incorporated into SEN
It is not the only one of the promises certified by the official for this year. The UNE intends to conclude the Herradura I wind farm, located in Las Tunas and built, once again, with Chinese specialists. The works began in 2018, but the successive problems have stagnated their progress, so it has become another of those eternally postponed commitments. Its contribution will be less, 33 MW, although any amount is welcome in a country that rarely drops from the 1,500 MW of daily deficit and whose heading person admits the unbearable of the situation. “How many blackout hours are they having?” Asked Miguel Díaz-Canel last Thursday at a visit to the Camagueyan municipality of Najasa. “Twenty? Twenty is a lot, ”he nodded before the population.
This Monday, for the peak schedule, the UNE had a generation of 1,845 MW and a demand of 3,300 MW, that is, 1,525 MW of difference. That despite the fact that after a new batch of arrangements and disorders, the thermoelectric plant Antonio Guiteras was underway. The largest unit, which after a breakdown began to synchronize the early morning of Saturday and on Sunday had to lower the load for new inconveniences.
“The problems that caused the SEN exit are solved, that is, the chancera sturgence. Yesterday a red point was detected in the right side zone, where the last breakdown was located, and it was where we worked, ”said the director of thermoelectric production, Jorge Gómez Chávez.
“The metals are put to red alive, hence we tell the area where a large amount of heat is affecting that coloration, which in this case was due to a gas leak, very hot,” he continued. . A repair was made from outside, and therefore we had to lower loads to 120 megawatts, to reduce the intensity of the flame it was giving on that wall. It was necessary to reduce the temperature to access there, where plates were placed in drawer forms to melt a refractory cement and prevent a leak from having. ”
The detailed description gave an account of the ailments that supports the Vetusta Guiteras, which finally contributed again 220 MW that seemed or noticed in the middle of the deficit. Among the plans described for 2025 is “to ensure the financing and execution of capital maintenance” to the Matancera Central, whose agony will continue to prolong if the means to keep it alive are achieved.
The detailed description gave an account of the ailments that supports the Vetusta Guiteras, which finally contributed again 220 MW that seemed or noticed in the middle of the deficit
Money is also sought and activated a contract to recover unity 2 of the Lidio Ramón Pérez de Felton, in Holguín, which in 2022 He suffered a fire from which he still does not recover completely. In addition, he announced that the maintenance of units 3 and 4 of Carlos Manuel de Céspedes will end in Cienfuegos; the 2 of Ernesto Guevara, in Santa Cruz del Norte; and Antonio Maceo’s 5 in Santiago de Cuba.
But most of these centrals, as the Government has recognized, have served more than you can expect from them and the use of national oil, of poor quality, corrodes its structures. Almost all the thermoelectric plants are active It is enough to say that the youngest is Felton, in Holguin, whose breakdowns and breaks know the Cubans.
The UNE director also set an objective, recover 850 MW of availability in the distributed generation, 520 MW in diesel and 330 MW engines in those of Fueloil. Although he did not specify how, it is known since December that China is cooperating in the recovery of at least 400 MW of this type. According to the Cuban News Agency, the Chinese Government included this project in the emergency list, with the principle of “agility for the most urgent” and in order to contribute in a “effectively and quick” way to face the crisis of the crisis of Electricity supply on the island.
Manuel Marrero stressed the importance of saving, since he snapped “despite the low availability of electricity, the demand remains very high, with a tendency to increase”
The Minister of Energy and Mines, Vicente de la O Levy, and his vice minister, Algierio Jesús Abad Vigoa, presented on Monday a balance, in which they regretted having lost, for lack of financing, five of the eight Pin Turks that came to be in Cuba. On the positive side, 804 pumping equipment for water supply with photovoltaic energy had noticed.
Manuel Marrero stressed the importance of saving, since he snapped “despite the low availability of electricity, the demand remains very high, with a tendency to increase” and said that it is being negotiated to “recapitize and lead to its maximum point of Exploitation The four refineries of the country, as well as increase national crude productions for export and generation of electricity ”.
The holders of the Ministry admitted that for the bad energy situation, “many variables”, one of them the “own insufficiencies, but the one that most affects is the intensified block that the US government implies.” The argument does not convince Cubans who see how a new luxury hotel in Havana points to the sky that will open on February 23.
