The Havana Electric Company develops an investment process to reinforce circuits with overload or affected by the burning of transformers, due to the increase in consumption in the summer, in addition to the occurrence of storms.
This was reported to Granma by Julio César González Rodríguez, head of one of the entity’s three investment brigades, who stated that in the two most recent years, and until 2025, the teams, with five operators each, work on new exits. from the substations to the city, to mitigate excess load.
One of the priorities in the substations consists of the purchase of cells – regulators of the electric current in the transformers – or, instead, large transformers, of 300, 500, 1,000 and up to 1,600 kilovoltamperes (kVA). in markets such as Spain and France, although this year the cells have delays in arrival, due to payment difficulties in the national economic context, he explained.
Likewise, he added that the Department of Investments prepared the electrical infrastructure in new hotels such as 25 yk, and 1ra. and b, in Vedado, and the 3rd. and 70, belonging to the municipality of Playa.
On many occasions, powering a hotel from a substation requires ditching more than 3.5 kilometers of underground lines between both points, with the support of a very expensive fund for the development of actions such as laying cables and using concrete, he maintains. the brigade chief.
He stated that the island’s electricity demand shows an interannual growth of 3%, so if there is a lack of systematic investment, the system collapses. (Taken from Granma)
