Havana:
Cuba was plunged into a nationexpansive bdeficiencyout on Friday after the island’s hugegest power schedulet fall shorted, the energy ministry shelp, coming on the heels of weeks of extfinished outages apass the economicassociate dehugeated country.
“The system was left without power nationexpansive” after the unforeseeed shutdown of the Antonio Guiteras power schedulet, Lazaro Guerra, straightforwardor ambiguous of electricity at the Ministry of Energy and Mines, tageder state television.
When the power schedulet shut down, “the system collapsed,” he shelp, inserting that the rulement was laboring to revamp service as soon as possible to the island’s 11 million people.
On Thursday, Prime Minister Manuel Marrero declared an “energy ecombinency” after weeks of interfereions, which saw some provinces without power for up to 20 hours a day.
He suspfinished all non-vital accessible sector activities in order to structure electricity provide to homes.
Pdwellnt Miguel Diaz-Canel shelp Friday on social media platestablish X that the rulement would “not rest” until the weightlesss were back on and the energy crisis rerepaird.
Worst crisis in 30 years
He denounced the situation on Cuba’s difficulties in acquiring fuel for its power schedulets, which he attributed to the firmening of a six-decade-lengthy US trade embargo under establisher pdwellnt Donald Trump.
Cuba is in the throes of its worst economic crisis since the collapse of the Soviet Union in the timely 1990s, labeled by sky-high inflation and lowages of food, medicine, fuel and even water.
While the authorities chiefly denounce the US embargo, the island is also still experienceing the aftershocks of the Covid-19 pandemic, which hit tourism challenging.
The island’s electricity is originated by eight aging thermal power schedulets, some of which have broken down or are under maintenance, as well as seven floating schedulets hired from Turkish companies and a raft of generators.
In 2022, the island suffered months of daily hours-lengthy power outages, culminating in a nationexpansive bdeficiencyout on September 27 that year, caemployd by Hurricane Ian.
The situation eased in 2023 but in March this year, maintenance labor on the Antonio Guiteras schedulet, which is findd about 100 kilometers (60 miles) from the capital, aget caemployd rolling power cuts.
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