Havana/The first of the 55 photovoltaic parks with Chinese technology that plans to build Cuba this year, located in the municipality of Cotorro, in Havana, synchronized this Friday with the battered national electrical system (SEN). At the start of the installation, which already contributes 21.8 megawatts (MW) daily, a procession of leaders attended, including the main flat of the regime.
The park was baptized Nursing School, due to its proximity to that teaching center, and has a workforce of 30 operators, distributed in four shifts. Each worker will be a full day and then rest three. For the day they will deal with technical tasks; At night, they will be the custodians of the park.
Park maintenance, according to Cubadebateit is “very simple”: the cleaning will be “natural” – the rain – or with a chiser whose characteristics did not specify, in one of the municipalities with the most hydraulic supply problems in the Cuban capital. The operators will have to periodically review the data provided by the thermographic chambers of the installation and monitor “all the elements”, an allusion to protect the pieces that, from the installation of these parks and In the stores themselvesThey have been stolen.
Although ‘Cubadebate’ does not mention it, the police had to take the surveillance of the component warehouse under their position, due to the frequency of the robberies
Although Cubadebate He does not mention it, the police had to take the surveillance of the component warehouse under his position, due to the frequency of the robberies. “The screws are carried, we cannot allow it,” said the general director of the Electric Union (UNE) last week – their employees have been the main accomplices of thieves – in the propaganda program we make Cuba.
China – whose ambassador, Hua Xin, was present at the ceremony – gave the teams 10 years of guarantee, which theoretically implies assistance when repairing and replacing the components. Nursing School Park is expected to generate more than 37 gigawatts per year, which calculates Cubadebatewill save the country 8,149 tons of annual fuel. The installation has been working in “test mode” for a week, and this Thursday reached 21.7 MW of maximum power.
Miguel Díaz-Canel headed the government delegation that attended the event, and which also contained Commander Ramiro Valdés, Liván Alonso-secretary of the Communist Party in Havana, the executives of the UNE and the Minister of Energy and Mines, Vicente de Vicente, Vicente de Vicente The or Levy.
The photovoltaic parks project has become a true obsession for the regime. The installation of solar parks can mitigate but not resolve the energy crisis that affects the country, although the government has presented its photovoltaic plan such as the panacea against the blackouts.
“To generate a single MW between 3,000 and 4,000 solar panels of optimal quality,” he explained to 14ymedio A specialist of the Cuban energy sector on anonymity. “It would be necessary to cover 20,000 square meters of surface to reach that figure and have battery banks – an additional cost that Cuba has not mentioned – so that the stored energy is usable when the sun hours pass, which coincide with the largest ones consumption. Under the current economic conditions of the country, a project of that caliber is not viable. ”
Despite this, the electrical deficit planned by UNE for this Friday is 1,564 MW
“It is true that photovoltaic energy is ecological and does not depend on the use of fossil fuels, but it entails constant maintenance of the locations that the Cuban authorities have demonstrated, historically, not to be able to sustain,” he added.
Despite this, the electrical deficit planned by UNE for this Friday is 1,564 MW. Two weeks ago, the affectation exceeded 1,800 MW, a record figure that made the total blackout – a reality that Cubans premiered last October – an imminent reality.
At the foot of the ad in Cubadebatea reader asks to accelerate the construction of panels and has another recommendation: gain speed “using the forces with which they built hotels.” Thus he hastened, the reader argues, the building of the K Torre, a focus of insurance waste in the middle of the neighborhood of the Vedado whose opening It is also imminent.
