Major Blackout Strikes Provinces In Energy Crisis-hit Cuba

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Since Sunday evening, a massive power cut has affected the island state, whose electrical system is based on eight obsolete thermal power stations and an outdated transmission system.

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HAVANA, Cuba, Sep 9 (ACN) Lazaro Guerra Hernandez, Director General of Electricity at the Ministry of Energy and Mines (MINEM), reported on Monday at a press conference on the latest partial disagreement of the National Electric System (SEN) on Sunday, which affected power from the eastern province of Las Tunas to Guantanamo.

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A failure in a 220-kV line left five provinces in Cuba without light, aggravating a chronic electrical crisis due to obsolete plants, scarce fuel and damaged grid. Cuba faces one of the most critical stages of its electrical crisis. On Sunday night, a blackout affected five of the country’s 15 provinces — Las Tunas, Granma, Holguín, Santiago de Cuba and Guantánamo — following the firing of a 220-kV transmission line in the west of the island, wh…