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La Jornada Newspaper
Thursday, December 5, 2024, p. 27
Havana. Cuba’s national electrical system collapsed yesterday due to a failure of its main thermoelectric plant, without give a break to Cubans who are experiencing their third national blackout in less than two months.
President Miguel DÃaz-Canel said that he expects good progress in the recovery of the service during this day.
The colleagues of the Ministry of Energy and Mines of Cuba and the national electricity company UNE work tirelessly on its reconnectionDÃaz-Canel published on his X account.
The Ministry of Energy and Mines reported during the early hours of the morning that The disconnection of the Electrical System, SEN, occurred when the Antonio Guiteras thermoelectric plant leftthe most important in the country, wrote in X.
It is a slow process, you have to start a machine, certify, see the circuits and measureexplained the Minister of Energy and Mines, Vicente de la O, in an appearance on state television to explain the situation.
He mentioned that it is expected to have a significant percentage of electrical distribution that would be completed today, and detailed that the complexity was not as great as on previous occasions, when the passage of cyclones, in addition to cutting off the electricity, damaged circuits, knocked down poles or caused transformers to explode.
According to the authorities, during the morning independent electricity generation circuits were reestablished in all the country’s provinces, especially those that serve hospitals, but the vast majority of the island’s 10 million inhabitants were still without power at noon. .
Orlando Matos, a night watchman who was on duty when the blackout began, complains that the energy crisis no respite.
In Havana there were few people on the street yesterday morning. Many families did not take their children to school and state employees did not work.