Yamil Lage \/ AFP<\/span> <\/figcaption><\/figure>\nA new generalized power failure – the fourth in less than six months – touched Cuba overnight from Friday, 14 to Saturday, March 15 caused by a failure of the national electrical system.<\/p>\n
“Around 8:15 p.m. tonight <\/em>[1\u00a0h\u00a015 samedi \u00e0 Paris]a breakdown <\/em>(\u2026) first occurred in the west of Cuba <\/em>[entra\u00eenant ensuite] the collapse of the national electricity system \u201d<\/em>announced the Ministry of Energy and Mines on X. The breakdown occurred in an electrical substation located in DiezMero, a town in the suburbs of Havana, the ministry said.<\/p>\nWith a dilapidated electricity production system, the island of 9.7 million inhabitants has already undergone three widespread breakdowns for the last months of 2024. Two lasted several days, one of which took place during a hurricane. These chronic network failures are added to the economic crisis that the country is going through, the most pronounced for thirty years, which has led to shortages of food, drugs and fuel, as well as a galloping inflation.<\/p>\n
“Faced with the unexpected disconnection of the national electrical system, we are already working tirelessly to restore it as quickly as possible”<\/em>said Cuban Prime Minister Manuel Marrero Cruz, on X. Shortly before midnight, the authorities said they had restored independent circuits in several provinces, providing electricity to priority sectors. In the streets of Havana plunged into darkness, only a few private hotels and companies with generators have remained enlightened, as are hospitals and other essential services.<\/p>\n\nRead also |<\/span> Article reserved for our subscribers<\/span><\/span> In Cuba, the worst social crisis since the collapse of the Soviet block <\/span> <\/div>\n Read later<\/span> <\/button> <\/p>\n<\/section>\nAlmost daily breakdowns<\/h2>\n This is the first generalized power outage in 2025, although the population is faced with almost daily breakdowns of four or five hours in a large part of the capital. In the provinces, these periods without electricity can last more than twenty hours.<\/p>\n
In February, the authorities had suspended for two days any activity on the island to save energy and avoid a general failure.<\/p>\n\nRead also |<\/span> Article reserved for our subscribers<\/span><\/span> In Cuba, faced with a giant electrical breakdown, the government increases the tone in the face of criticism <\/span> <\/div>\n Read later<\/span> <\/button> <\/p>\n<\/section>\nThe eight dilapidated thermoelectric power plants in the country, almost all inaugurated in the 1980s and 1990s, regularly broke out. Floating power plants rented to Turkish companies and generators, which complete the national energy system, are fueled by fuels that Cuba is very difficult and which are often in shortage.<\/p>\n
Faced with the emergency, the government puts double bites to install at least fifty-five Chinese technology solar parks by 2025. According to the authorities, they will produce 1,200 megawatts, or 12 % of the national total. By 2030, Cuba plans to produce more than 2,000 megawatts of solar energy. On this date, 37 % of the country’s electricity should come from renewable energies.<\/p>\n\n The world with AFP and Reuters<\/span> <\/p>\n<\/section>\n Reuse this content <\/section>\n<\/p><\/div>\nTm-En-1<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cars light up a street during a general electricity breakdown in Havana, March 14, 2025. Yamil Lage \/ AFP A new generalized power failure – the fourth in less than six months – touched Cuba overnight from Friday, 14 to Saturday, March 15 caused by a failure of the national electrical system. “Around 8:15 p.m. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":106390,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[787,1845,1615,23749,20615],"class_list":["post-106389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-dark","tag-electricity","tag-failure","tag-generalized","tag-havana"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106389\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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