{"id":486978,"date":"2025-10-16T08:53:25","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T12:53:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/the-energy-crisis-will-cause-simultaneous-blackouts-in-43-of-cuba-this-friday\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T08:53:25","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T12:53:25","slug":"the-energy-crisis-will-cause-simultaneous-blackouts-in-43-of-cuba-this-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/uncategorized\/the-energy-crisis-will-cause-simultaneous-blackouts-in-43-of-cuba-this-friday\/","title":{"rendered":"The energy crisis will cause simultaneous blackouts in 43% of Cuba this Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"The energy crisis Cuba is going through will cause simultaneous blackouts throughout the day, affecting 43% of the country during the hours of greatest energy demand in the afternoon-evening, the state-owned company Uni\u00f3n El\u00e9ctrica<\/a> (UNE) reported this Thursday.\n\nDeficit rates have exceeded 50% for several consecutive days, and outages often exceed 20 hours a day in several locations in the country.\n\nThis is due, among other factors, to the fact that thermoelectric plants, the backbone of national energy generation, are mostly obsolete, after decades of exploitation and a chronic deficit of investment and maintenance.\n\n\n

You can also read:<\/strong> Wilson Cabrera announces candidacy for the Secretary General of the Modern Revolutionary Youth in SDE<\/a><\/p>\n\n\nAlso, many electricity generation engines are out of service due to the country’s lack of foreign currency to import fuel, lubricants, or spare parts.\n\nThe Cuban government points out that the main causes of the blackouts are breakdowns in the thermal power plants – with decades of accumulated exploitation – and the lack of fuel and foreign currency to import it.\n\nThe UNE, attached to the Ministry of Energy and Mines, estimates for the “peak” time in the evening of this day a maximum generation capacity of 1,990 megawatts (MW) for a demand of 3,360 MW.\n\nThis represents a deficit (the difference between supply and demand) of 1,370 MW and an estimated impact (what is actually disconnected to avoid disorderly blackouts) of 1,440 MW. It is common for the actual values to exceed the official forecast.\n\nCurrently, five of the 16 available thermoelectric production units (31%) are out of service due to breakdowns or maintenance.\n\nIn addition, 54 distributed generation plants (engines) are out of service due to lack of fuel (diesel and fuel oil) and another twenty are not operational due to a lubricant deficit.\n\nIndependent experts point out that the energy crisis is due to chronic underfunding of this sector, completely in the hands of the Cuban state since the triumph of the revolution in 1959.\n\nThe Cuban government highlights the impact of US sanctions on this industry and accuses it of “energy asphyxiation”.\n\nVarious independent calculations agree in estimating that the Cuban government would need between 8,000 and 10,000 million dollars to revive the electrical system, an amount that Havana does not have.\n\nPower outages are a major drag on the national economy, which contracted by 1.1% in 2024 and has accumulated a 11% drop in the last five years, according to official data. ECLAC also predicts that its gross domestic product (GDP) will be negative this year.\n\nThe cuts also fuel social discontent in Cuba and have been linked to the main protests that have occurred in the country in recent years, such as the massive ones in July 2021.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The energy crisis Cuba is going through will cause simultaneous blackouts throughout the day, affecting 43% of the country during the hours of greatest energy demand in the afternoon-evening, the state-owned company Uni\u00f3n El\u00e9ctrica (UNE) reported this Thursday. Deficit rates have exceeded 50% for several consecutive days, and outages often exceed 20 hours a day […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":133537,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-486978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-22Gu","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","dum_api":{"author_name":"Paola Castillo","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/cropped-paola-castillo-f-96x96.jpg","categories_name":["Uncategorized"],"featured_media_url":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/133537"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=486978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486978\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}