Madrid/At a good time it occurred to the CNC TV Granma channel to ask the population about their experience with the lack of liquefied gas. The local television station published on your Facebook account information previously provided by the Territorial Fuel Marketing Division of the province in which it warned that, due to the lack of availability of LPG at the Santiago de Cuba plant, there would be no sale “until further notice.”
The channel noticed the amount of criticism that the entity’s notice raised and decided to ask the population to send their experience. “How is this situation affecting your community? We invite you to share your experience in the comments.” Few posts from the chain have generated such a number of comments, more than a hundred at this point, for a modest account in which the most commented thing tends to be, precisely, the daily electricity deficit report, with a couple of dozen responses. Although it is fair to recognize that on December 26, the video of the celebration “for the 67th Anniversary of the revolutionary triumph in the municipality of Río Cauto” left more than 300 complaints – mostly -: “Give quality of life to those people, who are dying in life. Shame they must feel with so much antics celebrating something that has not existed for many years,” pointed out one of the many protests.
The message about the lack of liquefied gas contains endless complaints that reflect the state of things in the eastern province. The situation we are experiencing is really sad. The end of the year is coming and people are under the same stress that we have experienced throughout the year: no electricity, no water, no cash, little food, super outdated basic basket (today the 29th the six pounds of rice and three of sugar announced have not yet arrived at the warehouse). And an apparent normality that gives the idea that no one with determination has any idea of what the people are experiencing. They don’t even explain anymore. We only apologize for the inconvenience caused. ‘The company management appreciates…’, what understanding? Nobody understands,” said one user.
“At my point, which is 78 Santiago de Cuba, located in San Félix, since the distribution began they have only taken them twice,” argues another. “In my community it is affecting too much, because this neighborhood is one of the hardest hit by the current. This looks like a mountain, you can only hear the sound of the axes chopping the firewood. I hope it is restored soon. Happy new year,” said another, a little more optimistic. Quite the opposite of a reader who does not retain even an iota of the spirit that is presumed at this time: “How sad our life. Without water, without current, without bullet to cook the little that is available. What is going to be celebrated this December 31? And life goes on and no one seems to care.”
“This looks like a mountain, you can only hear the sound of the axes chopping the firewood. I hope it is restored soon. Happy New Year”
The situation is discouraging, and not only in the east, where another episode of momentary panic was experienced yesterday when a trip on “the 110kV Renté Santiago Industrial line, which feeds a large part of the province of Guantánamo” left this province disconnected from the national electrical system (SEN). The issue was resolved in a few minutes, but it is now impossible to distinguish when you are connected or not. The state company was forced to clarify that, once the line was repaired, “the existing electricity deficit in the province is due to the lack of generation.”
Pending whether the Antonio Guiteras plant in Matanzas manages to reconnect correctly to the system, the island today faces a new day of energy shortage. Although very low temperatures have been announced for this end of the year, when they will not exceed 18 degrees, demand remains very high for the limited generation that can be supplied on the Island. The expected availability for peak hour is only 1,570 megawatts, less than half of what the country requires, 3,300 MW, so an impact of 1,760 is expected for that time.
The rest of the day will go, theoretically, better. Demand is much more limited, with 2,100 MW, and although production is also low (1,420 MW), the maximum impact will be 950. The breakdowns in units 5 of the Mariel CTE, 2 of the Felton CTE and 6 of the Renté CTE, join the maintenance of 2 of the Santa Cruz CTE and 4 of the Carlos Manuel de Céspedes CTE, in Cienfuegos.
However, the problems come mainly from distributed generation, which keeps 93 plants out of the system, a total of 1,039 megawatts in the run-up to New Year’s Eve.
