MADRID, Spain.- The Antonio Guiteras Thermoelectric Power Plant (CTE) in Matanzas, one of the main ones in the country, left the National Energy System (SEN) again this Wednesday, after a brief period without the Cuban regime reporting on its operations. usual affectations.
The new break is due to a failure in the turbine condenser, according to the Cuban Electric Union (UNE) through Facebook.
The break occurs when the Lidio Ramón Pérez thermoelectric plant, known as Felton, is undergoing maintenance, which is why blackouts are forecast to increase during these days.
According to the information, the arrangements will not last less than 36 hours. For this Thursday the UNE announced blackouts from 10:00 in the morning to 1:00 in the afternoon and from 5:00 in the afternoon to 11:00 at night; but he did not specify which will be the most affected areas.
Although the Unión Eléctrica has blocked comments on its publications, Cubans have spoken about it from publications of users and media that have shared the information.
“I already knew that the joy in the poor man’s house would not last long”; “They have the psychiatric people with the thermoelectric plants; that one came out of maintenance, that the other has a breakdown, that there are going to be blackouts for so many hours, we no longer have so many worries”; “La Guiteras has already begun to go out for a walk again,” say the Cubans, for whom last year the blackouts from 10 to 12 hours became unsustainable; what caused popular demonstrations throughout the entire country.
At the beginning of 2023, the Minister of Energy and Mines of Cuba, Vicente de la O Levy, forecast that the blackouts would return in February, due to maintenance that would be carried out on the main CTEs in the country. In addition, he indicated that unforeseen outputs from obsolete thermoelectric plants could coincide with this.
