According to the information, a long and widespread impact is forecast for today.
Power was out all day yesterday and into the early hours of today. The peak impact occurred at 8:20 p.m., with a deficit of 1,623 megawatts, right at the peak of national consumption.
The eight new photovoltaic solar parks contributed 1,026 megawatt hours, a figure still far from what is needed to meet demand.
At 7:00 a.m. this Wednesday, system availability was only 1,731 megawatts, while demand reached 2,494 megawatts, resulting in an immediate deficit of 801 megawatts. According to official estimates, an even greater impact is expected by midday, reaching around 916 megawatts.
The outlook for the evening is even more critical. The estimated peak demand will be 3,350 megawatts, and if no new generation sources are added, the deficit could reach 1,619 megawatts. If this scenario continues, a total impact of up to 1,689 megawatts is expected during peak hours.
Technical failures, maintenance and fuel crises
The collapse of the national electricity system is marked by a combination of factors. Unit 2 of the Felton Thermal Power Plant is out of service due to a breakdown, while five other thermal units, located in Santa Cruz del Norte, Cienfuegos, and Renté, are shut down for scheduled maintenance.
In addition, the system has a thermal limitation of 358 megawatts, which are also out of operation.
But the main problem remains fuel. Ninety distributed generation plants remain shut down due to fuel shortages, resulting in a loss of an additional 603 megawatts. Also out of service are 120 megawatts in Moa's Fuel Oil engines, affected by the same cause. Added to this are an additional 18 megawatts that are unavailable due to a shortage of lubricants.
Havana will implement rotating power outages
The Havana Electric Company announced a rotating blackout schedule aimed at staggering the impacts across the city's various blocks. This Wednesday, Block 2 will be affected between 10:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m. Block 1 will experience outages between 11:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. Later, Block 3 will be without service from 3:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. Finally, Block 4 will experience outages from 7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.
These blackouts disrupt activities in hospitals, schools, businesses, industries, and public transportation services, severely impacting daily life.
Solar energy does not fill the gap
The contribution from solar farms was included in the daily report. Their total generation reached 1,026 megawatt hours, a positive contribution in the long term, but insufficient compared to a daily deficit that far exceeds 1,500 megawatts during peak hours. Renewable generation currently fails to cover even a fraction of national consumption.
A system on the brink of collapse
The situation of the National Electricity System reflects a structural crisis with no immediate solution. Despite the government's efforts to promote energy savings and expand the use of renewable sources, the country's infrastructure remains obsolete and highly dependent on imported fuel.
The combination of technical failures, backlogged maintenance, and resource shortages has placed Cuba's electrical system in a critical situation. The outages continue indefinitely, and the population once again faces a day marked by uncertainty, heat, and darkness.
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Comrades: We are in a process of recupinternal erationcuperable, our leaders are taking the necessary measures to finish sinking the country, like the tick that does not leave until the dog dies, but we are giving a cookie without a hand to Yankee imperialism every time we go without food, resisting jjjaaa... Everyone to the streets on May 1st and long live the blackouts, long live the lemonade... The people are moving forward and that hurts them. God help me, hunger is already hurting me (maybe that's how cyberclarias are made) oooo I will evolve into a cyberclaria (^-^)(^-^)(^-^)
I don't know the reason for the blackouts in the capital of 4 hours at most, while in the center-east those 2 or 3 hours of electricity are what they put in. Are we the ones with the most electricity? Do we have to save money? Or is it a provincial problem because the truth is it's unbearable. They put it on you for 2 hours, you can barely cook. In fact, the rice doesn't start to boil when you take it, they cut off the electricity, gentlemen leaders, this is fucked up.
Well, I'm analyzing the blackout schedule in Havana and I see that the longest is 4 hours, while in the central and eastern areas it's at least 7 or 8 hours. Is that right? Not even on Sundays, when workers rest, can they watch a movie? They should review that.
I don't know why they give so much explanation if 99.99% of the population is not a graduate in electricity and does not understand kilowatts. It's better to say that so many hours will be affected and that's it. In fact, the solar parks they are building could be 800 throughout the country that when their construction is finished the next day the Guiteras or any other thermoelectric plant breaks down and nothing works.
The biggest disrespect in history 🤦 Until when🇨🇺
They don't want to realize that they have to destroy all the old thermoelectric plants that are no longer working. Spend the money on building new ones. Stop making so many useless trips that mean nothing to the people. Hunger is killing people. Of course, us who walk, not the others who live and die. GATHERED IN HAVANA IN FULL HALLS AND THEY REPRESENT NOTHING. JUST BLAH BLAH BLAH. THERE IS NO GAS, THIS IS A MAJOR ABUSE, THEY NO LONGER HAVE LIMITS. WHERE ARE THE HUMAN RIGHTS OF THE CUBANS WITH THIS MISERY AND THIS POVERTY. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH. EVERYTHING THAT NEEDS TO BE CHANGED MUST BE CHANGE.
That is not the attitude of a revolutionary, you have to have a sense of belonging, comrade, look, these blackouts are ours, this hunger that I have now is ours, but the money for the thermoelectric plants is theirs jjjaaa and that is how we define socialism. But joking aside and without fear of being pessimistic, I think we can prepare for month-long blackouts if they lost the London trial and they owe money even to the penguins of Madagascar, the only hope is that Columbus discovers us again because we are now officially Tainos.
That rotation is for Havana, right?
Because in the municipality of Sibanicú we only have 4 hours of electricity per day, this is an abuse and a lack of respect that no one can tolerate.
What I don't understand and I would like someone to explain to me is the situation we have in the country why we have to take out 4 large thermoelectric plants to give them extended maintenance at the same time. We know that they need it but why rotate that maintenance in a staggered manner. To minimize the large deficit and with so much time, we understand everything and that the situation of the blockade is very true. Although many do not consider it. But we here have to analyze with a great sense of belonging the decisions when making it. Well, it is very logical that with that minimum of photovoltaic panels it is impossible to cover the output of those 4 thermoelectric plants that are so in maintenance at the same time. With great respect to the leadership of the country, a citizen who loves her roots and her people.
What is the actual frequency of maintenance for generating plants? Why is there an impact and is it then said that it went out of service for scheduled maintenance? However, very recently it also went out of service for the same reason and so soon it was back in maintenance?
Everything these people say about whether we're going to improve the electricity problem, the gas problem, and everything else we already know about, has one goal: to keep us hoping and keep us entangled in their lies. First, they tell you for a few days, then it turns into weeks, then it leads to months. In the end, as we know, we fall into the same old thing again. It's a vicious cycle. Of course, NO ONE BELIEVES IT. But we can't do anything, otherwise they'll put us in a cage and that's it.
It seems that Havana is the whole of Cuba, since you can see how well staggered the circuits are due to damage, while in the East, Granma, we have to endure endless blackouts, which last more than 12 consecutive hours.
Until when!!!!!
What's going on and where is the oil that Russia donated to Cuba? Nothing can be understood. What a lack of respect. Even we revolutionaries get tired. Everything has a limit.
I regret this situation and would not want a collapse for the entire country; but I hope that Havana and Varadero suffer the blackouts like the rest of the country. In a socialist system, we are all equal and have the same rights. And I say: BROTHERS, STRENGTH AND RESISTANCE.
Nothing matches. I'm from Block 2, Marianao, and they blacked out from 9 a.m. to 3.10:XNUMX p.m. They also shut it down early in the morning. Could it be that we're headed down the path of the poor provinces where the poor no longer live? They look like zombies.
I don't know how ashamed he is to tell so many lies. He has no fuel, and there are three fuel ships in Matanzas Bay, two unloading, and the third anchored in the bay, waiting. Until when, in the rest of the country, blackouts last more than 3 hours, while in Havana they only last four hours, and all the blocs don't have hospitals or other important centers. Stop the lie that we are all Cubans and human beings. Where is the so-called socialist equality?
I don't understand how the 8 solar parks that recently entered the system have a capacity of 21.7 MW, which in total would be approximately 168 MW, and could produce more than 1000 MW h.
The total collapse of the Cuban electrical system...has an immediate solution.
May the murderer, criminal, and genocidal Castro family and all their communist henchmen collapse and disappear.
The most important thing is to have the money for imported fuel and of course buying it is the only way to get rid of blackouts due to other causes.
How many lies have been written? The blackouts have nothing to do with what they say. Destroy all the old thermoelectric plants that are over 50 years old. Build new ones, spend the money. Not on trips or meetings that resolve nothing.
Havana is barely affected, in Santiago we suffer 20-hour blackouts. ABUSERS. NO ONE CAN STAND THIS.
Hunger is killing people, children and old people screaming with hunger.
THERE IS NO GAS. BUT WHAT DOES THE STATE RESOLVES?
They say the blockade is to blame and they wash their hands. And they live the good life, they are sure they don't suffer blackouts and they have everything.
EVERYTHING THAT NEEDS TO BE CHANGED MUST BE CHANGED. THIS COUNTRY IS THE MOST MISERABLE AND POOR IN THE WORLD.
In the end we are still in the same situation, no fuel for cooking or lighting, it is very sad what we are experiencing in Cuba.
A real disaster
What a shame, what a pity, what a lack of humanity, what inconsideration, how they rejoice in saying that the impacts in the capital are 4 hours while for the center of the country C85 the impacts are 24, 25, 30, in the best of cases 18 hours a day without service, as if we were not human beings who also need electricity, what poor management of the rotation of the circuits in the 100fuegos electric company. There are more "protected" than unprotected, imagine the result of this situation, who pays the blame, I mean the blackout.
We hope it gets better
We're going to grow a beard, frogs grow hair first.