A huge interruption of current in Cuba leaves millions in the darkness | Business and economy news
The last bark collapse follows a series of disappearances across the country in recent months.
Cuba National Electric Network Dropped down Once againleaving millions of people without electricity.
The grid succeeded on Friday night at 8:15 pm (00:15 GMT) after the breakup in Diezmaro substation in the capital, Havana, began a chain reaction that excluded energy production throughout the island, according to officials in Union Electrica (UNE).
In Sunrise on Saturday, Une said that he only creates electricity of electricity – about 225 MW, or less than 10 percent of total demand. Authorities have announced that parallel circles help to provide electricity with key sectors, such as hospitals.
“Several provinces have parallel circles and the generator units begin to synchronize” with the national network, said Kuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel on X.
The island of 9.7 million inhabitants has already suffered three disappearances across the country in the last months of 2024, two of which lasted several days.
Although the latest collapse of the network is the first this year, it comes and the island is fighting with one of its largest economic crises in 30 years. Hit the United States sanctionsCuba has recessed the subsidized Venezuela oil for years, but this supply is increasingly uncertain as the Government in Caracas to be embedded with their own economic problems.
“Nobody knows at the moment when the power will come back,” resident Abel Bonne told Reuters news agency at Havana’s Malecon Waterfront Boulevard early on Saturday.
People in Havana already live with almost daily sprinkles of four or five hours, while those outside the capital are confronted with rolled blacksmiths that have reached the 20 hours a day in recent weeks.
“My God, this is terrible, we are ready for a dark weekend,” said Karen Gutierrez, a 32-year-old ice cream saleswoman in Havana, told AFP news agency.
Andres Lopez, a 67-year-old resident of the Eastern Province of Holguin, added that he did not expect another darkening so quickly.
“That really bothers me,” he said. “Let’s see when they get it [the power] Return. “
Cuba blames his economic trouble at the US Cold War trade embargo, a network of laws and regulations that complicate financial transactions and acquire basic things such as fuel and spare parts.
US President Donald Trump recently tightened sanctions on the island communist government, promising to renovate “heavy” policy towards a longtime American enemy.
In the meantime, to compensate for his lack of electricity, Cuba is racing to install a series of at least 55 solar farms with Chinese technology by the end of this year.
Local authorities have announced that these facilities will generate about 1,200 MW of power, about 12 percent of the national total number.
