Two thermal power plants put into operation, Cuba’s power outage is alleviated

Cuba’s National Electrical Union (UNE) was established this Saturday National Power System Lidio Ramón Pérez Thermal Power Plant (SEN) from Holguin Felton and Carlos Manuel de Céspedes from Cienfuegosannouncing that additional units would be synced “in the next few hours.”

The state-owned company provided this information in its report Facebook Page And celebrating this morning that “there is service throughout the country and no blackouts due to the deficit”, seven thermal power plants were damaged since Tuesday and power outages have increased dramatically across the country. Some lasted Nearly 20 hours.

“Since 4:00 am, Felton 1 has been online. At 6:50 am it reached 161 MW and increased the load… Prior to this, Céspedes 4 was also put into operation. In the early morning, service was provided nationwide without blackouts due to the deficit, and from 4:15 am the other units will also be synchronized in the following hours,” UNE reports.

The official portal reprints the daily section on the SEN situation every day Cuban DebateUNE reported “CTE Máximo Gómez (Mariel) Unit 5, CTE Ernesto Guevara (Santa Cruz) Unit 1, CTE Antonio Maceo (Rente) Unit 5 and CTE Unit 2 were out of service due to a failure of the Lidio Ramón Perez (Felton)”.

The company reported that 30 distributed generation plants were out of service due to lack of fuel, “with a total of 146 MW of generation capacity affected by this concept”.

For peak, “Felton built 70 megawatts.”

Based on such forecasts, UNE estimates that the available power during peak hours is 2,600 MW, the maximum demand is 3,150 MW, and the shortfall is 550 MW. If the expected situation continues, an impact of 620 MW is expected within the above timeline.

Services were affected on Friday due to a lack of capacity on Cuba’s “24 Hours”, According to the UNE report, it was restored at 4:19 a.m. on Saturday. At 7:00 a.m., the availability of the SEN was 2,530 MW and the demand was 2,350 MW. With all SENs operational, the company estimates the maximum impact during the day to be 100 MW.

Despite syncing with Felton’s SEN – whose latest outage is the second this month –Underwent maintenance before the start of summer——Forecast for other thermal power plants Cuba’s prolonged power outage eased on SaturdayWhile users appreciated the staff’s efforts, the content posted by UNE on Facebook was questioned.

“Congratulations to everyone. Remember, this is not a solution. Your efforts are admirable and thank you very much, but the economic costs are not recoverable. No economy in any country can afford to maintain these repairs, which is to say unsustainable and of course with a general decline in people’s living standards,” wrote Jesus Alfonso Lamar.

“If these arrangements last and there is a permanent solution, but it’s just a small improvement for a few days. Will we live our lives like this? That is the question for Cubans. The workers have to stubbornly do the same thing,” lamented Yarilis Quevedo Herrera.

Adrian Serafin praised the workers’ “feat” and said he hoped the “patch will last”.

Lassiter Lopez believes that the workers who work “day and night” to repair the “old and damaged” thermal power plant failures deserve “great encouragement.”