The Cuban Electrical Union (UNE) indicated this Wednesday that blackouts will increase during the month of June due to the increase in maintenance work at several Thermoelectric Power Plants (CTE).
“As has been reported in these months from January to June, maintenance activities at Thermal, Energy and Distributed Generation Plants are increased with the purpose of reaching the months of greatest consumption and electricity demand, which are July and August, months in addition, the rest of the population,” explains a note posted by the entity on Facebook.
Remember that currently “maintenance of the Felton Unit is planned for 25 days”, which has generated an increase in “affects to the electrical service.”
These blackouts occurred “when having to limit some Thermal Generation Units” that had to be cleaned and repaired due to unforeseen breakages.
The UNE affirms that it will comply with “the maintenance plan until the last days of June” in order to minimize the effects in the summer.
He clarifies, however, that in July and August there will also be blackouts “if there are some unforeseen outages of Generation Units.”
On Monday, the Lidio Ramón Pérez (Felton) thermoelectric plant in Holguín left the national electrical system for a new “scheduled maintenance” that will last 25 days.
That same day, coincidentally, Cuba experienced a day with severe blackouts, with more than 1,000 MW of maximum impact reported by the UNE in its report on May 7, which summarized the energy behavior of the previous day.
The deficit in generation capacity was 24 hours and the maximum impact figure was exactly 1,091 MW at 8:40 pm, 210 MW higher than the 881 MW that the entity had planned.
Several Cubans reacted to the announcement with indignation: “It is easy to write and approve what is published for those who live in privileged areas of the country, the early mornings are hell and more than maintenance is the fuel deficit, and then they say that the US wants this, “Who is going to want something that no longer exists,” said one Internet user.
