The Electric generation in Cuba It doesn’t raise his head. In the middle of a sustained peak of blackouts for breaks, maintenance and lack of fuel, in the last hours the synchronization of two generating units that were disconnected by breakdowns, but the departure of a Turkish pinna for “commercial reasons” was reported.
The plants that returned this Friday to the National Electrical System (SEN) were Antonio Guiteras Thermoelectric Central and Unit 4 of Energy Varadero, which had been out for several days.
La Guiteras, the largest unitary block on the island, had suffered a breakdown in the boiler a few days after a previous synchronization, which subtracted in the last week – as days before and not rarely in recent years – the more than 200 MW that must contribute to SEN.
Already yesterday he generated about 160 MW and was climbing, As reported on Facebook The journalist José Miguel Solís. At that time, The communicator himself explainedEnergás Varader The part of the electric union (UNE).
For others, also for tonight the entrance is scheduled, with 50 MW, of Unit 6 of Renté, which was damaged and this morning was already in the process of starting, as well as the eight engines of the Turkish Turkish rule (68 MW), standing due to lack of fuel.
All these incorporations involve an important injection for the coming to less electricity generation on the island. However, these inputs will not substantially improve availability in the country because, in parallel, the 240 MW of the other pinnacle of Havana is lost.
This was confirmed by the UNE, according to which its disconnection is due to “commercial reasons” and, in response, “immediately, measures have been taken that allow the current situation not to be worse.”
In its report, the entity did not specify which measures referred to, nor abounded in the “reasons” of this situation, although presumably it is about lack of financing to continue paying the rent of the Suheyla Sultanknown as the melons, the largest of the floating centrals that still remained in Cuba.
Already last May, the UNE had denied rumors about an imminent departure of the patanas. This, after days before the first vice minister of the Ministry of Energy and Mines, Jesús Abad Vigoa, Recognize As “a latent risk”, the possibility of withdrawal of the patanas “given the difficulties in honoring their monetary commitments.”
More recently, during the parliamentary sessions of mid -July, Minister Vicente de la O Levy acknowledged that most of the patanas that Cuba once rented had already left the island, as well as the persistence of difficulties for the payment of the few that followed.
Then he said that “minimum payments” had been executed to maintain these patanas “generating during July and August.” However, the departure of this floating plant just at the beginning of August calls into question that statement.
Without it, and even with the incorporations planned by UNE, for tonight the maximum expected affectation will be high again: 1744 MW. And I could climb more if they persist – as it is presumable to occur – the constant breaks and the fuel deficit that have been injuring SEN for months and have exacerbated the endless energy crisis on the island.
