2023-08-08 19:21:00
The failure of unit 5 of the Termoeléctrica Renté, in Santiago de Cuba, and the fuel deficit to start up one of the boats of the Turkish company Karadeniz Holding located in the bay of Havana, they made The Electric Union (UNE) will announce the increase in blackouts in Cuba this Tuesday.
According to the official note from the state company, which during July and early August had reported few power cuts for generation reasons, during the current day there will be a 361MW deficit at peak hour, which anticipates night blackouts in the middle of very hot nights.
The UNE did not explain in its note what caused Unit 5 of Renté to go out of service or how long it will take to repair it.
On Monday night there were already blackouts in the country due to the low availability of electricity generation, the company indicated, which began around 8:30 PM and lasted throughout the early morning.
The availability of the Cuban electrical system at dawn was 2,370 MW, and the demand was 2,550.
In addition to the damaged Renté unit, unit 3 of that generation plant and unit 2 of Felton are out of service due to breakage. Unit 6 of Renté is also under maintenance.
However, the current problem lies in the impossibility of the UNE to compensate these outages with the so-called distributed generationwhich basically contribute the so-called generator sets, which operate with imported fuel oil, since 1,021 MW are not available due to failure and there are 238 under maintenance.
Despite this, the authorities predicted the entry into service during the night of Tuesday of the Turkish patana of the bay of Havana connected to the Melones electrical substation, which would provide 110MW, as well as Renté unit 3 and 145MW in generator sets.
“We have already started. A year ago it was promised that this summer there would be no problem with electricity and we cannot spend more than 15 days with current,” questioned David Téllez López Chávez in the Facebook wall from the journalist of the official Canal Caribe Lázaro Manuel Alonso, who commented on the situation with the power cuts.
“Add to this the discomfort due to the lack of food and services, or well, not the lack, the high private prices and the lack of these in the state sector,” he added.
The Government offered as a success during the last July session of the National Assembly of People’s Power having contained the blackouts in such a critical period for the authoritiessince many people are on vacation in their homes and the high temperatures make it difficult to rest.
Before the plenary of that body, Vicente de la O Levy, Minister of Energy and Mines, highlighted the results that “the strategy for the recovery of the availability of generation capacities, both in distributed generation engines and in the thermal plants, with the aim of keeping the hours of affectation to a minimum”.
Despite this, he admitted that at least two Turkish boats had left Cuba this year “in accordance with what was agreed in the contracts,” although only one of those rented facilities had been reported leaving the island.
The Government wants to avoid at any cost a wave of blackouts like the one experienced by Cubans between April and November 2022with cuts of more than 12 hours in some territories, which caused social unrest in numerous towns, and had as a corollary the protests that took place in Havana between the end of September and the beginning of October.
Those peaceful demonstrations were crushed by the regime’s repression. But the reasons that gave rise to them remain in force, and the Government knows it.
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