Madrid/Energy diplomacy is winding with China, which has already delivered a donation announced in January for the province of Matanzas. It’s about EIGHT STRUCTURE GROUPS of 1.8 megawatts (MW) with which it is intended to fully rehabilitate the Guanábana power plant, about 22 kilometers from the largest thermoelectric of the island, Antonio Guiteras.
“With this donation we consider that in the middle of the month that comes from Guanábana, 100% of the availability they present, which are between 25 and 30 MW,” Mario Pedroso Caballero, engineer and general director of Geysel, the state company in charge of this technology, said.
Although the contribution is small and diesel shortage limits its operation, one of the values that the manager highlighted is the ability of these equipment to contribute to the process of restarting the national electrical system (SEN) after a general collapse “these locations are designed to, in exceptional situations, make islands, microsystems that together with energy, can start the Antonio Guiteras thermoelectric The surrounding population or the circuits that its capacity allows it, ”added Pedroso Caballero in statements to Yumuri TV.
In addition, Granma stressed that the donation will “favor” the installation of teams of the same type in Havana, Artemis and Ciego de Ávila
Besides, Granma He stressed that the donation will “favor” the installation of teams of the same type in Havana, Artemis and Ciego de Ávila. Although it did not offer more details, it is understood that these will be new gifts from Beijing, whose impact will stop again to the area of the Cuban West. The Official Gazette of the Communist Party exalts “the brief time in which the operation of the equipment placement was carried out, a maneuver that requires skill of the operators and the use of a high capacity crane”, without specifying whether they have carried out Cuban or Chinese workers.
This and other donations from the Beijing government – like the industrial generator Installed in Trinidad last May – they serve as reinforcement to the other great program that is carried out with two Chinese private companies, the much better known project of installation of 2,000 megawatts in solar energy through the construction of 92 solar parks in two phases. The first contract, of 1,000 MW must be concluded in 2026 and the second in 2028.
That star project in which so many expectations put the island’s government being completely dazzled. The lack of fuel and imported oil that moves the distributed generation, together with the state of the structure – many of which have also been recovered with Chinese support – lies in quantities that have come to exceed 700 MW daily deficit daily, although in the specific case of this Thursday there were 530 (145 due to lack of lubricants and 385 due to the inability of 53 centrals).
On the other, because the status of thermoelectric plants, considered the spine of the SEN and largely fed with native crude, are found in a catastrophic state. Yesterday, its deficit was 484 megawatts, for the breakdown of Unit 2 of Felton (Holguín) and maintenance in the 1 and 2 of Santa Cruz del Norte (Mayabeque) and the 4 of Carlos Manuel de Céspedes (Cienfuegos).
To all this is added the lack of batteries – the installation of four is planned – that stabilize the photovoltaic energy that occurs in the sunny hours and release it when there is not.
Without these huge shadows, the solar energy program does not go badly. This was stood out this Thursday three sector officials In the nth program of the round table dedicated to the state of the SEN, paying the already grown upset of citizens. “They are an insult to intelligence. With a country off by ‘Electric Generation Deficit’ they announce a topic of electricity generation in a television space without Teleaudience due to lack of electricity. Then they are told dumb and get brave,” said a user.
In the program, the guests pointed out that one day ago (Wednesday), the Solar represented 26.8% of the total generation, with 639 MW. Of course, at noon. “If we did not have that generation at noon, obviously the impact would be sustained during the 24 hours,” said Algierio Jesús Abad Vigoa, Deputy Minister of the Branch. It was clear that photovolthal, under these conditions, rather than contribute, covers the craters of the thermal and the distributed.
“From Friday, September 19 until today, complex days have been lived, marked by unforeseen exits and strategic maintenance.”
“From Friday, September 19 until today, complex days have been lived, marked by unforeseen exits and strategic maintenance,” said the head of the distributed generation group, Raiza Cainet. The worst moment was reached on Sunday 21, when the 2,000 MW of deficit was exceeded.
But donations are a crucial contribution and that was clear again at the round table. Abad referred to them to mention the arrival of the batteries for the parks, which are already 32 and seven closer to conclude. “Specialized technical assistance is already found in the country to guarantee the implementation of these systems. As part of the international donation, 120 MW more will be incorporated, and in the next stage 85 MW will be added with batteries, which will allow stabilizing the generation against clouds and other climatic factors. It is expected that the installation of these components will be completed between the end of the year and the beginning of the next one,” he argued.
The Chinese support, within the framework of the 65th anniversary, this Sunday, of diplomatic relations between the two countries, is very cheap for Beijing, which in return obtains a key partner in a continent in which he looks more than set. Cubadebatewhich dedicates a column this Friday To extol those relationships -A small lifeguard for the increasing Strip and route initiative ”, the Beijing Trojan horse to develop its influence at the planetary level.
