After a first nationwide blackout on Friday, the electricity failed again nationwide at 6:15 a.m. on Saturday morning, Cuban state media reported. The state electricity supplier UNE is continuing to work on restoring supply on the Caribbean island. Despite the efforts, Cuba is, with a few exceptions, without electricity, the news portal “14ymedio” reported. In the morning, light was briefly visible in some quarters of the capital Havana, but then it went out again. According to the report, power was restored in some hospitals in Havana, but in some cases only temporarily. There are shops that use generators to provide electricity, it said.
HAVANA. The nationwide power supply collapsed in Cuba on Friday.
Cuba reports nationwide power outage
Important thermoelectric power plant off the grid
On Friday, the socialist Caribbean country’s entire power grid unexpectedly collapsed. The important Antonio Guiteras thermoelectric power plant had gone offline. This led to a general power outage in the country, the Energy Ministry said. Several other power plants were already out of operation due to their poor condition.
Cuba is in one of the worst economic crises since the revolution around Fidel Castro in 1959. Because of the poor condition of the outdated infrastructure – also as a result of the US trade embargo that has existed for more than 60 years – the thermoelectric power plants in Cuba regularly go off the grid and have to be put into emergency use be repaired. Power outages are a daily occurrence across the country.
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