“More blackouts, inflation and shortages,” Cuban Internet users expressed their dissatisfaction with the crisis on the Electrical Union.
The Electrical Union (UNE) predicted for this sunday December 14 that simultaneous blackouts will reach close to 56% of the national territory, with a generation deficit close to 1,830 megawatts (MW) during peak consumption hours.
According to the official report published on Facebook, the maximum capacity planned for peak hours is 1,520 MW, compared to an estimated demand of 3,350 MW, which would leave an impact of 1,860 MW on the electrical system. The company points out that five thermoelectric units remain out of service for maintenance or breakdowns, and that dozens of distributed generation engines remain inactive due to lack of fuel and lubricants.
“We continue in daily torture. Long live involution!” commented an Internet user identified as Gema González.
“We are still above 1,500 MW. The president said it from day one: “WE ARE CONTINUOUS AND GOING FOR MORE”… Obviously he was referring to more: blackouts, inflation and shortages of food and medicine, in short, more MISERY,” wrote user Leonardo Rossi.
“Today the lack of energy is going down a little, but it’s still bad. The SEN should set up a MSME to sell mosquito nets, mosquito-killing devices, cocuyos to light us and devices that can be used to make light bonfires with garbage,” demanded Manuel López Oliva, another Internet user.
The crisis, which has already lasted more than five years, hits the eastern provinces hardest, where many territories remained without electricity for weeks after Hurricane Melissa hit at the end of last October.
For its part, Havana experienced one of the longest days of protest in recent months between the night of last Monday, December 8 and the early morning of Tuesday, December 9. In the dark for more than 15 hours In several sectors, residents of municipalities such as Marianao, Regla, Alamar, Diez de Octubre, San Miguel del Padrón and La Lisa took to the streets banging pots, lighting bonfires and demanding immediate solutions to the energy collapse and the deep social crisis that the country is going through.
Videos spread on social networks show groups of neighbors gathered in front of buildings and avenues, many of them with phones on as the only point of light. Banging pots and pans, shouting and demands for electricity, food and freedom were repeated in different neighborhoods of the capital, as confirmed by witnesses and activists.
