Cuba still hugely without power after nationwide grid collapse

Cuba remained hugely without power on Saturday morning, after the island nation’s grid collapsed the night before, knocking out electricity for 10 million people and raising new inquires about the viability of its antiquated generating system.

At sunascfinish, the island’s grid operator UNE shelp it was generating only a trickle of electricity – around 225 MW, or less than 10% of total insist, enough to cover some vital services appreciate hospitals, water provide and food production cgo ins.

CUBA WORKING TO REESTABLISH ELECTRICAL SERVICE AFTER SECOND GRID COLLAPSE

Officials shelp they had enduremament the process of firing up the country’s decades-greater generation set upts, but gave no timeline for restoring service.

Cuba´s grid flunked Friday evening around 8:15 p.m. (0015 GMT) after an aging component of a transleave oution line at a substation in Havana uninalertigentinutiveed, commencening a chain reaction that finishly shut down power generation apass the island, UNE officials shelp.

The grid collapse chases a string of nationwide bdeficiencyouts tardy last year that plunged Cuba’s frail power generating system into csurrfinisher-total disarray, stressed by fuel uninalertigentinutiveages, authentic calamity and economic crisis.

Most Cuprohibits outside the country’s capital of Havana have already been living for months with rolling bdeficiencyouts that peaked at 20 hours a day in recent weeks.

Havana was still hugely without electricity on Saturday morning. Light traffic directd intersections with no functioning stopairys and cellular internet was frail or non-current in some areas.

Abel Bonne chatted with frifinishs on Havana’s Malecon waterfront boulevard timely Saturday, taking in the new sea breeze after a stuffy night without power.

“Right now, no one comprehends when the power will come back on,” he shelp. “This is the first time this had happened this year, but last year it happened three times.”

Severe uninalertigentinutiveages of food, medicine and water have made life increasingly unendureable for many Cuprohibits, and people have been run awaying the island in recent years in record-fractureing numbers.

Cuba accengages its economic woes on a Cgreater War-era U.S. trade embargo, a web of laws and regulations that complicate financial transactions and the acquisition of vitals appreciate fuel and spare parts.

A grid official on Saturday morning shelp Cuba had been unable to refresh antiquated transleave oution and generation components becaengage of the redisjoineions.

U.S. Pdwellnt Donald Trump recently firmened sanctions on the island’s communist-run regulatement, votriumphg to revamp a “stubborn” policy toward the lengthy-time U.S. foe.

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Havana dwellnt Yunior Reyes, a bike taxi driver, was back on the job Saturday morning despite the bdeficiencyout, fretting that his food reserves might spoil in the day’s heat.

“We’re all in the same situation,” he shelp. “It’s a lot of labor.”