Barely a week the truce of the energy deficit lasted for the National Electric System (SEN) after the widespread blackout in Cuba after the passage of Hurricane Ianlast September 27th.
When the Cubans were gradually recovering the light, and for a few days, it was surprising from the communications of the Electric Union (UNE) that the reported deficit, unlike the trend of recent months, was very low. On October 3, for example, it was 300 megawatts (MW).
This Thursday, however, the UNE forecast is that there will be a generation capacity of 1,913 megawatts (MW) for a maximum demand (in the afternoon-night hours) of 3,000 MW, with which the deficit would be 1,087 MW . In other words, for the third time so far this year, a deficit of more than 50% (57%, in this case) is exceeded.
In its daily statement, the state-owned electricity company recalls that units 6 and 7 of the Mariel thermoelectric power plant (CTE), unit 1 of the Santa Cruz plant, unit 4 of Nuevitas, unit 2 of Felton, units 4 and 6 of Renté (of which unit 3 is also undergoing maintenance) and the entire CTE Otto Parellada and Antonio Guiteras.
Neither the UNE nor the official press has been reporting power cuts for several days, unlike what they had been doing these months ago
The inhabitants of the Island already know what this information translates into: more scheduled blackouts, which in some parts of the country have reached up to twelve consecutive hours. Despite this, neither the UNE nor the official press has been reporting power cuts for several days, unlike what they had been doing these months ago.
The blackouts, daily in Cuba since last May, were precisely the initial reason for the protests in Nuevitas and other places in the country, for which they were 42 people arrested according to the registry of the Justice 11J platform.
“We want light,” was also one of the cries that were heard in the streets of Havana last weekend, when some neighborhoods in the capital accumulated 100 hours without electricity. The repression unleashed against these peaceful demonstrators adds 26 detaineesas also collected by Justice 11J.
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