The same old story is repeated. Authorities from Cuba's Ministry of Energy and Mines confirmed this Saturday that intensive work is underway to prepare several thermal power plants for the summer.
This is a narrative that Cubans are already familiar with: more maintenance, more promises, but no immediate relief from the blackouts.
The engineer Lázaro Guerra Hernández, Director General of Electricity, said Cuban television said that "we have other light maintenance to do on the units so that we can reach the hottest months of the year in better condition from the perspective of thermal generation."
While this statement may seem encouraging, it's nothing new. Every year around this time, the public is told that the preventive maintenance schedule is designed to ensure the stability of the national electricity system during peak demand periods. However, the outages continue unabated.
On this occasion, Guerra Hernández explained that "Unit 3 in Santa Cruz is undergoing light maintenance; we're expecting it to begin around the 24th of this month; and Unit 5 in Nuevitas is expecting it to begin around the 22nd of this month." Both projects, he explained, are part of efforts to "put them in better condition for the hottest months of the year, so we can move on and perform the light maintenance we have planned."
Five units in Cuba are under maintenance
According to the executive, the system currently has "five units undergoing maintenance," in addition to the two previously mentioned. With this work, he stated, the goal is "to deliver a greater amount of energy with this type of technology, which is clearly the basis of the system's generation."
Even so, Guerra himself admitted that the problems remain unresolved. "We didn't have enough generating capacity to meet demand," he said, referring to the previous morning.
One of the most urgent cases is unit number 6 of the Mariel thermoelectric plant, which was supposed to be back online in the last few hours but couldn't due to a valve problem. "We're currently working on the unit, cleaning the boiler to fix the problem... when the problem is resolved, the machine will be back online," he explained.
This situation leaves no room for optimism. Despite the talk of "preparing for summer," the figures reveal that power outages will continue to affect the population, especially in small towns and in the central-eastern region. "Demand has been high in recent days. The temperature has a significant impact, as has the impact on service. This means demand is very high, and it's not possible to meet it with the available resources we have," said the Cuban executive.
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I just want to ask a question. Is it mandatory to believe them, or can we skip that step?
I've stopped lying. They spend their lives looking at the speck in someone else's eye and don't look at their own, which is big and they don't give a damn. The Céspedes 3 unit was under maintenance for 6 months and has already broken down twice. That tells us everything.
The same summer programming, the same programs are repeated, I hope they comply at least once and for all.
I really didn't give any more information about the current issue. We no longer understand what they want to explain. Nothing is understood. May God protect us from such agony.
The problem is that people don't fully understand that this electrical improvement isn't for this year, or next year, or the year after that.
Unfortunately, the year is still pending, so please be patient.
That's giving hope to a dead man. Not in summer or winter... just accept that we're not capable of sustaining ourselves as a country. It's not just the electrical system. The Ministry of National Renewal (MINCIN) is the same as a pound of rice and a pound of sugar, milk for children 2 and older, medical diets... it's little by little and with an IV drip. And it's sad to see them visiting one country after another, crying misery so they'll send donations for the Cuban people. Dignity and values have been lost. My God, what a disgusting government.
No more promises What we need is more empathy with those of us who are suffering from power outages of 2 or 3 hours and blackouts of nothing 24 hours a day. That is here in CP Hnos Cruz P del Río where almost everything is a building. There is NO liquefied gas for cooking and there is no electricity either. We are in regression, walking with firewood and whoever can, coal. Until when will the public servants, who have a duty to do it for other Cubans, have a little empathy with their people and the electricity is vital even to have water in the buildings. Please, more solutions and less promises and equality in the energy benefit. Thank you.
No more lies, no one knows what the next lie will be and the people don't see the result anywhere.
blah blah blah blah blah blah.
How much is the dose of lies now? Until when? It's the same every year.
They are not ashamed of how old they are and fill the TV with pure fallacies until when Lazaro. You passed the school of PCC and you passed with flying colors, it shows.
Remember the motto,
CUBA IS AN ETERNAL SUMMER.
OR NOT?
"Let's hang on, this summer is going to be better... more blackouts, more heat, more mosquitoes, more arbovirus diseases, etc. etc. etc."
I think we should evaluate the possibility of doubling the monthly start-up capacity of photovoltaic solar parks. We need to install the two gigabytes of these sources more quickly and continue up to 6 gigabytes, including at least two of storage.
They already lie to our faces. We don't count. We are not valued. We are not respected. That is the value that the country and its citizens have. We will have tocupErase that at all costs, otherwise we will disappear en masse. Today we are aborigines mistreated and discriminated against by the system 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 God have mercy on us
Good morning. The city of Cienfuegos suffers from long, continuous blackouts, with no scheduling that allows us to organize our lives. We have to get up in the middle of the night to cook and do other chores, with hot nights that make it impossible to rest, and with no hope of abatement or solution. The hopelessness and discontent of its residents can be seen online.
I want to know the state of the generators that Fidel bought for the energy revolution, which contribute 2500 million euros, and here they only talk about Tecmoelectrica, they don't talk about that group.
The problem is that the same unit in Cienfuegos is not out of maintenance for another one. How many days has it not been stopped this month and now it comes back? This is your dad's story. They are deceiving us and telling the truth and that the circuits for the cut are not even. There are areas that spend 20 hours straight in the city while in others next to them the cycle is six and four, others are five and four. Fidel educated us to equality, today we don't even have that. I think that a better strategy should be taken. Start thinking carefully about what is going to be done for the summer that is already here.
The same as every year and as happened last year, the blackouts intensified at that time and there was no explanation. The maintenance continues and never ends, and on the other hand, the lack of oil.
That's what they said last year and the year before and two years ago... they have faces made of concrete.
When you say that the blackouts do not stop in the central and eastern areas, you are absolutely right, but you forgot to add the west as well. The only ones who benefit are those in Havana and the Isle of Youth, which has its thermoelectric plant. I am from Matanzas and I only get two hours of electricity a day. What bothers me the most is that we no longer have any hope of things getting better. Leaving the country is the only thing we have left to put an end to this suffering.
More lies, summer has been going on for a long time between heat and blackout. Please don't tell any more lies, you have no shame anymore.
Likewise, in Colon, the hospital has power all day and night, however, the other circuits have power all day and night. That is unfair. What happens is that the Colon bosses live in that circuit and they don't care about anything, just as the state doesn't care about anything.
This is called "Aunt Tata tells stories" uff🙄
We are aware of the effort the country is making to resolve this serious situation that the population has today and aware of the deficits and maintenance, but my request would be that the daily information not be about the impacts to be had, but when and what is being done to resolve the problem in question so that we do not have so many affected units, my appreciation of the country's availability for peak hours, especially at noon, does not take into account what the photovoltaic parks generate because the math doesn't add up for me. If this system generates 1500 MW at the country level and the plants, what is reported is based on the demands and what is generated, where the current produced by both systems is, I ask that reference be made to this issue to help inform our people.
We are aware of the effort the country is making to resolve this serious situation that the population has today and aware of the deficits and maintenance, but my request would be that the daily information not be about the impacts to be had, but when and what is being done to resolve the problem in question so that we do not have so many affected units, my appreciation of the country's availability for peak hours, especially at noon, does not take into account what the photovoltaic parks generate because the math doesn't add up for me. If this system generates 1500 MW at the country level and the plants, what is reported is based on the demands and what is generated, where the current produced by both systems is, I ask that reference be made to this issue to help inform our people.
We are aware of the effort the country is making to resolve this serious situation that the population has today and aware of the deficits and maintenance, but my request would be that the daily information not be about the impacts to be had, but when and what is being done to resolve the problem in question so that we do not have so many affected units, my appreciation of the country's availability for peak hours, especially at noon, does not take into account what the photovoltaic parks generate because the math doesn't add up for me. If this system generates 1500 MW at the country level and the plants, what is reported is based on the demands and what is generated, where the current produced by both systems is, I ask that reference be made to this issue to help inform our people.
That dog already bit us once
It's a story told three times!!!! It'scucWe tell the tale, we endure, we put up with the sickening heat and mosquitoes, and then... NOTHING! Still, we hope for improvement, after going through the same path, never getting better, and we're in the same place! Worse than Aunt-Tata telling stories! I feel sorry for that professional, who tries hard, but always comes off badly.
The story of the good pipe is the same every year, how much equipment is there in Cuban homes to demand so much energy? Cubans hardly even have fans and a good number of cold ones don't work and thousands of houses are closed because no one lives there. Where are we going to end up?