Nearly 100 power plants shut down due to fuel shortages in Cuba

More than 90 distributed generation plants are out of service, worsening the national electricity deficit, according to official data from the UNE

The National Electric System (SEN) presents this lunes June 23 a limited generation capacity, with a sustained impact on the service during the last 24 hours, according to the part newspaper issued by the Electric Union (UNE).

Service interruptions were reported throughout the day on June 22, which continued into the early hours of today. The maximum impact on Sunday was 1650 MW, registered at 21 pm, coinciding with the time of maximum demand.

A las 07:00 hours of this lunes, the availability of the SEN was of 1750 MW, in front of a demand of 3000 MW, which caused an impact of 1297 MW. By midday, an impact of 1250 MW.

More than 90 power plants shut down due to fuel shortages in Cuba

One of the determining factors in the current deficit is the Unavailability of 96 distributed generation plants due to lack of fuel, what represents 738 MW out of service. Added to this are An additional 79 MW are affected by a lack of oil in engines., for a total of 817 MW unavailable due to causes related to the supply of energy carriers.

In addition, the following are in failure: Units 6 and 8 of the Mariel CTE and Unit 2 of the Felton CTE. They are under maintenance Units 2 of the Santa Cruz CTE, 4 of the Cienfuegos CTE and 5 of the Renté CTE. The technical limitations in thermal generation amount to 390 MW.

As for the contribution of renewable sources, the UNE reports that 16 new photovoltaic solar parks generated a total of 1803 MWh, with a maximum power of 402 MW delivered to the system at noon.

Forecast for tonight

For the peak time of this day the entry of the Unit 6 of the CTE Mariel, with 100 MW. With this, a total availability of 1850 MW In front of one estimated maximum demand of 3550 MW, which would cause a deficit of 1700 MW and an impact of up to 1770 MW at that time.

As reported by the UNE During the weekend, the entry of several thermal units was expected: Unit 1 of the CTE Santa Cruz, the Unit 6 of Nuevitas and Unit 6 of Máximo Gómez. However, the Unit 1 of Santa Cruz had an unexpected departure on Sunday, at the time it was in the process of starting up.