Despite the voluntarist declarations of the Cuban leadersthere will be no truce this week for the blackouts on the Island.
As published this Tuesday Electric Union of Cuba (JOIN) and collect Cubadebate, There was a failure this Monday afternoon at the Carlos Manuel de Céspedes Thermoelectric Plant in Cienfuegos. Unit 3 of that plant stopped working just hours after two units of the Antonio Maceo plant, in Santiago de Cuba, and Diez de Octubre, in Nuevitas (Camagüey), which had been out of order for a few days, came into operation.
“The electricity generation deficit in Cuba continues to affect the service, despite the synchronization of two other units,” says the publication of the official newspaper.
“The electricity generation deficit in Cuba continues to affect the service, despite the synchronization of two other units”
Last Friday, the UNE explained in a note that, despite the fact that the Lidio Ramón Pérez thermoelectric plant, in Felton, in the Holguin municipality of Mayarí, was back in operation after a breakdown, it was not managing to supply the demand of the country because “six thermal units continue to fail and maintenance is planned at Feltón 2, Mariel 8 and Talla Piedra”.
The UNE has said that the situation is “complex” and President Miguel Díaz-Canel acknowledged that “the country’s energy situation continues to be very dense” due to “breakages in some plants and the scheduled departure of others for maintenance.”
However, the fault lies not with the lack of maintenance of the plants, but with the covid-19 pandemic and “the intensified blockade,” the Cuban leader insisted.
Each blackout has pushed the patience of Cubans to the limit, because they must suspend work due to the constant outages that arrive without notice, despite the broadcast of a schedule by local radio stations. The situation becomes more difficult on hot May nights that require the use of fans or air conditioning equipment to sleep.
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