With the dollarization of some ETECSA services in Cuba, it was spread on social media that electricity would also be paid in dollars. A widespread rumor that now UNE (Electric Union) clarifies. Details immediately. The Electric Union (UNE) of Cuba recently clarified on its official Facebook page that it's completely false that will be established limits on electricity consumption in the country or that the excess consumption will charged in dollars.
"It is false that limits will be placed on electricity consumption in our country and that excess consumption will be charged in dollars," he said. lee.
The publication responds to growing rumors on social media that generated concerncupamong citizens. In these messages, it was assured that the government would apply electricity rates in foreign currency, a possibility that la UNE flatly denies for the moment.
The rumors gained momentum after recent statements by President Miguel Díaz-Canel, who blamed the public for high domestic consumption and called for "more savings."
According to the president, the use of electric stoves, high energy consumption, and a "lack of public awareness" are key causes of the blackouts.
This speech led many to speculate that the government was preparing to impose energy restrictions more severe or even charge part of the service in foreign currencySuch measures, although denied today, are not ruled out in the future, as has happened with some services such as fuel or Telecommunications.
Dollars to pay for electricity in Cuba? For now…
The comparison with what happened with Etecsa was not long in coming. At the time, plans to charge in dollars for telecommunications services were also denied, until the May 30th 2025 a new tariff policy was applied that surprised Cuban users.
Now, many fear that the energy situation will follow the same path: rising electricity rates, sales in MLC of liquefied gas or payment in foreign currency for overconsumption of electricity.
However, up to this minute, thanks to the clarification of the UNE It is unlikely that excess electricity consumption will be charged in dollars in Cuba in the near future.
The Cuban people are the ones who will ultimately have to decide how to respond to these policies which, although denied by the UNE Today, they could be admitted in a few years, because that's how things work on the island.
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What does it matter if the Electric Company says no now? If when they want to do it (which I don't doubt) they'll do it, period, just like they've always done. They say no... but in the end, YES.
It would be unfair to charge for electricity in dollars, since we don't charge in dollars. Besides, it's the people's fault for not having gas or kerosene to cook, live, and sleep without electricity. Our president should carefully consider what he says before speaking, because the blame always lies with someone else, whether it's the blockade or the people, never with the people who mismanage this country.
I hope they do it
when the river sounds jjj
They themselves are already saying it in the future but they will do it but first they must pay in that currency to fix all the thermoelectric plants. They want us to save electricity but if we don't have it when we have it we have to use it all because it is for a while and the next day there will be no savings. If when we don't have it we are already saving.
The only thing missing is paying for electricity in dollars, I think that is beyond the reach of Cuban citizens, that is disrespectful, here we pay in dollars cup, not in dollars.
It hardly seems like a concentration camp.
The same thing has happened with the stores in cuc, after in mlc, then ETECSA and so on, if they denied it it is because it will become reality
What's the point of consumption if power generation isn't sufficient? We'll have to be careful with an educated and well-educated population tired of dictatorial measures.
as Jenber said
socialism and modern slavery
Who would think of charging foreign currency to a people whose average per capita salary does not amount to 12 dollars x?
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As always, the stores were not going to dollarize it and in the end they did, and I have no doubt that they will also do it with the current, if they did it with the data, you will see that they do it, always denying what they already have planned to do, when the river sounds it is because it carries water, in a few months you will see, IF THEY ARE GOING TO DO IT.
You're right, we don't know what to expect anymore.
If there is no gas with which the Cuban will cook, can they perhaps put a wood stove in an apartment of a building? Until when are they going to blame us for their mistakes? The blame never falls on the floor and is always paid by the people, a people already tired of so many needs without electricity, without food, and on top of that, they are responsible for the deterioration of the thermoelectric plants. They also have to stop so much earthquakes.
They tell so many lies that people no longer believe them. There are too many mistakes that demonstrate how poorly they manage the country, putting incompetent and incapable people in charge of the economy (Gil).
It is not a lack of awareness of citizens regarding saving electricity, the problem is that if there is no liquefied gas to cook with, what else will we do it with other than electric stoves?! It is absurd to blame us for the current energy situation in Cuba there is an economic and energy situation and a lack of everything. How is it possible that they expect to be paid in foreign currency if our salaries are in national currency and not all of them are supported from another country. For example, I have a little girl of 5 years old and I have to work miracles to bring her food along with the other things necessary for her and without counting that to do so I have to forget about myself and not buy anything for myself. Totally absurd statements and decisions, this has become psychological and macabre torture.
It's all mistreatment of the people and then they want the people to support them.
They better deny the news because this town can't take it anymore!!
La UNE If limits have been placed on electricity consumption... all private economic actors, who have a B6 rate, were restricted to 15% of their consumption for the month of April, that is, they are only allowed to spend up to 75% of the consumption recorded in the month of April of this year... so they are liars.
It's always someone else's fault: the blockade because of shortages, the people because they consume too much. They're never to blame for anything.
The cynicism of these people is too much
In this country, nothing is certain, and we have no doubt it will happen. It was said in 2020 that the economy would never become dollarized, and we're seeing it happen.
We're waiting for the atmosphere to cool down ha ha ha
I wouldn't be surprised. They also denied that they weren't going to dollarize food stores and in the end, look, ETECSA is the same, so that's coming too, I have no doubt about it since they don't keep their promises.
They deny it now, of course. It's standard practice, and then comes the smackdown. Live and see, and there's an old saying that goes: "When the river sounds, it brings stones."
What do they expect? After hours of blackouts, when the power comes back on, people won't use electricity anymore? These communists are going crazy.
I don't know if they're going crazy... they're giving it fire... and it's going to explode... lol... even animals defend themselves when you're really bothering them... so they shouldn't go crying and asking for shelter.
so many things have been denied
which is a lie and in the end they come out
I don't have dollars to buy in those stores
and Pinocchio said 🤥 that it wouldn't be like that and if it is like that
Well, I have no doubt they are desperate for dollars.
It was the same with gasoline, they said no and then they put it on, first they spread the word, if the people don't say anything they implement the measure, they measure it.
It is really outrageous to have so much work, to be affected by everything (electricity, water, food, telephone, transportation, etc.) and on top of that to have to becucIt's our responsibility as a people. Did I ask for the gas to be out for so many months? I selected the electric stove option, which solves the problem, but we still have to wait for electricity, even though it's becoming fewer hours a day? I shouldn't even have to pay, with so much impact, and bills for 700 are appearing. CUP 🤦🏾, PLEASE...ENOUGH!!!! Stop pretending to be economists, when in reality you are "bad inventors," constantly experimenting and taking more time than necessary to accept that it doesn't work for you. You can't expect to get ahead with a currency that isn't yours (it was even penalized). We need "studied and well-founded" policies that are externally oriented, not these hard copy books.
It would be disrespectful to blame the people for the increase in consumption, given the situation that has arisen with manufactured gas, which is distributed twice a year in much of the country, for whatever reason.
Electrifying the country was Commander Fidel Castro's idea, when he took away gas from many citizens and gave them electric stoves, rice cookers, electric pressure cookers, air conditioners, and now Diaz Canel says that the people are responsible, in addition to implementing the sale of air conditioners to the population as a way of raising foreign currency, it is very annoying that they justify their inefficiency by blaming the people,
They'll slowly apply it to MSMEs. They justify it by saying they're the biggest consumers. And then to the residential sector. I have no proof, but I also have no doubts. "FOR NOW"… the reorganization and distortions. It's coming.
When the river sounds, water brings few words to the wise.
I can't understand the overconsumption with 20 hours or more of blackouts. There can't be tortillas where there are no chickens. The people are right to doubt because they've been given the reason. Stores MLC, ""He who does not have dollars... that is not Cuba, nor will it ever be!", now Etecsa and many other former
When the river makes a sound, it's because it's carrying rocks... get ready!!!... they're going to screw us without Vaseline!!!... they'd better establish the dollar as legal tender in Cuba...
Studying the country's laws carefully and looking for points of conflict, taking advantage of moments of crisis, discontent, insecurity, catastrophes, or complex weather situations, are among the instructions in Canvas.
So the blame for the electricity bill lies with the population... no, the blame in any case lies with whoever decided to switch from gas to electric stoves, and who doesn't know how to properly manage a country. But of course, it's easier to blame your inefficiency on consumers, when the responsibility for ensuring services is entirely yours.
And regarding payments in foreign currency, if they weren't going to do it, they must already be mulling the idea over in their offices. Our future looks bleak.
Totally agree
The answer is not really very transparent, because according to what it says, it is a clarification note: why, in the same (clarification note) do they put for the moment?????, because it seems that it is coming and it is to be expected,?
Maximum when nothing is produced and no problem has a solution, in addition to a stream of problems that cannot be resolved, but still, this is what happens with ETECSA and the chain stores? Very strong all around
They're probably already cooking up some dollar-related electricity bills. It's clear they want the people and their families abroad to bear the burden of the obsolescence and inefficiency of state-owned companies and the government.
Don't be naive, my friend. That comment of yours is the only one published in this medium. They don't publish my opinion or that of thousands of other Cubans.
If we are already going to be like this, paying dollars, let the US come, live on their lands and businesses that because of this annoyance of communism and socialism, they lost and family, they have to suffer so much damage with the witchcraft they do to invade territory and torture those who do not want to accept such a thing,
I CAN'T STAND WITCHCRAFT, SPIRITISM, OCCULTISM, I LIKE ANYTHING TO ASK FROM DEMONS, MUCH LESS FOR A CRAZY, CORRUPT, AGUSADOR SOCIALISM AND COMMUNISM