Havana/This week, on the occasion of a breakdown, the electric company of Havana alluded to a mysterious “spit” that no authority in the branch had mentioned before. Clearly, it was not a floating plant in the style of the eight that the Turkish company Karpowership had, but of a structure on land, located in the Caribbean shipyards of the capital, whose progressive construction has followed closely 14ymedio Since the beginning of August.
Then the structure, located where the Turkish floating central was before Suheyla Sultan -that He left in August Leaving the rule alone – he barely had two of his six finished chimneys and was surrounded by cranes that still remain on his side, but this Saturday the structures seemed to be complete. Its mention in the Havana company’s breakdown report suggests that the “Pinana” could already be working, although how much megawatts (MW) it contributes or where it comes from has not been revealed.
Asticultar is nestled in a spring of the state shipyard, which belongs to the Gemar Business Group, of the Ministry of Transportation, nestled in the area known as the Havana fishing port.
Despite its origin and generation capacity, any contribution to the SEN that the terrestrial engines can make would involve a relief for Cubans, who have been suffering long blackouts without the authorities being able to glimpse an improvement in the electrical service.
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“In my house the blackout lasted all afternoon until ten o’clock at night,” he tells 14ymedio Rolando, a neighbor again who could barely rest at dawn on Friday. The heat was not the only thing that bothered his rest, but the continuous sway of the service, which interrupted his dream several times. “They took her away shortly after the only one to put her back at three.
The authorities no longer know how to explain to Cubans, upset by the situation, that the state of SEN will take to get fixed. This Saturday, in a note published in Granmathe ruling party resorted to the spent formulas of the “most complex moments, marked by the coincidence of unforeseen outputs and the Insufficient fuelwhich causes high deficits and very long effects. ”
For this Saturday, the UNE announced, the deficit is expected to 1,765 megawatts (MW) at peak schedule. The Minister of Energy and Mines, Vicente de la O Levy, also went out on Cuban television, to explain the causes of the “exceptional technical failure” that on Thursday night left SEN with 270 MW less and caused protests in the capital.
“The situation worsened with an unpublished event: there was an exceptional failure that had never happened to us. Three generation plants came out at the same time,” he justified, although two days later, and with the units already recovered, the situation has not changed much.
As if that were not enough, the minister confirmed that last week “the fuel that the country has available. The information does not match the hundreds of thousands of oil barrels from Russia, Mexico and Venezuela, according to data in recent months.
The morning of this Saturday another “unforeseen” problem by little disconnects the unit 6 of the Gas de Energas Boca de Jaruco plant, which delivers to SEN between 100 and 120 MW. According to company managers in the morning news, one of the plant channels that give to the sea had to be cleaned by the sargasso penetration.
The morning of this Saturday another “unforeseen” problem by little disconnects unit 6 of the Gas de Jaruco Gas Plant
The only hope of UNE is Chinese donations, which based on solar panels and industrial generators (engines) aims to improve the rampant Cuban electrical system. At the beginning of September Beijing delivered to Matanzas eight structures of 1.8 MW each with which it is intended to fully rehabilitate the power plant in Guanábana, about 22 kilometers from the largest thermoelectric of the island, Antonio Guiteras.
In the blind of Ávila, the official press also reported, another 12 25 MW diesel engines that China delivered to the province are installed. The teams have the same power as those delivered to Matanzas and are part of the Government Program for the recovery of SEN.
“In the blind of Ávila, only the Morón diesel power plant had been available with its eight engines and, of course, this donation represents a very important benefit,” said the authorities, who added that workers from a local MSME had been hired to be responsible for maintaining.
This and others Beijing government donations – such as 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 1,000 MW contract must be concluded in 2026 and the second in 2028.
