SAN LUIS POTOSÍ, Mexico.- The Antonio Guiteras Thermoelectric Power Plant (CTE), one of the largest generating capacity in the country, left the National Electric Energy System (SEN) this Wednesday due to “issues” in the turbine area.
As explained by the press According to the official, based on information provided by the Electric Union (UNE), the failure occurred specifically in the oil regulation system in the turbine, which caused the interruption of the plant’s generation at 2:50 a.m., when it was providing 245 megawatts.
The work of repair It could take less than a day, according to the director of Thermal Generation of the Electric Union, Edier Guzmán Pacheco
“Now we have to examine the valve cleaning scheme and the pump itself in order to determine the causes of the pressure drop,” a CTE engineer told reporters.
In Cuba, power outages are not decreasing and the outlook is not encouraging. UNE had predicted 780 MW of damage during peak hours.
Unit 5 of Mariel, Unit 1 of CTE Santa Cruz, CTE Antonio Guiteras, Unit 2 of CTE Felton and Unit 5 of Rente are out of service due to a breakdown.
On the other hand, thermal generation limitations amount to 403 MW and 42 distributed generation plants are out of service due to fuel, for a total of 254 MW affected.
The day before, blackouts simultaneously affected 20% of the country during peak hours (afternoon-evening).
In your daily partThe state-owned company said on Tuesday that the power outages were due to breakdowns in several units of the onshore thermal power plants (CTE), a lack of fuel and a lack of generation capacity.
Last Wednesday, the island recorded one of the highest power outages in three months (39%), although still below the 45% outage reported in February of this year.
Power cuts affect all provinces, reaching up to ten hours a day, even in Havanawhere “scheduled” blackouts are implemented by neighborhood, lasting approximately eight hours.
These blackouts worsen the economic performance of Cubawhich has been mired in a serious crisis for years, and is driving Cubans to despair, who have expressed their dissatisfaction with the situation in peaceful demonstrations. The most notable protests occurred on July 11, 2021the largest in decades, and most recently on March 17 in Santiago de Cuba and other locations.
