With the Felton and Guiteras power plants down for repairs
The enormous deficit in electricity is more than double that of the previous day’s, when some provinces reported power outages and internet failures
HAVANA TIMES – In just two hours, a storm of indignant comments has fallen on the Facebook page of Cuba’s State Electric Company (UNE), which announced for Friday January 26th a deficit of 1,010 megawatts (MW) during peak hours. The figure is one of the highest that can be remembered, after November 12, 2023, when it predicted an “affectation” of 1,000 MW. The enormous deficit in electricity is more than double that of the previous day’s (482 MW), when some provinces reported power outages and internet failures to this newspaper.
As warned by UNE, the situation is due to breakdowns in unit 6 of the Maximo Gómez power plant in Mariel; a unit of the Antonio Guiteras in Matanzas; the 5 of Diez de Octubre in Nuevitas; unit 6 of Antonio Maceo in Renté and unit 2 of the Lidio Ramon Perez in Felton.
Although the report places the breakdown in the Antonio Guiteras, the main power plant in the West, it is only two days since the UNE announced the shutdown of the thermoelectric plant for 72 hours for maintenance. Today’s UNE announcement indicat