- About two days of island-wide outage knocks electricity to 10 meters of people.
- The grid operator says that the two largest oil -powered power plants in the country, back online.
- Electricity was restored in Havana with about two-thirds of densely populated Havana.
Cuba re-added its national power grid and restored the power for the majority of the capital Havana till late Sunday, said, the energy authorities said, about two days after a island-wide outage, 10 million people knocked down 10 million people.
Havana’s electric company late on Sunday said that about two-thirds of the customers in the city had seen electricity restored and said that the number would increase overnight.
Cheers can be heard in areas across the city as lights were lost after two days without electricity.
Cuba’s grid collapsed on Friday evening after a transmission line at a substation in Havana, began a series reaction, which completely shuts down power generation throughout the island.
Most Havana – densely populated and a major tourist center – had gone without electricity since then, closing most restaurants and black out roads and stoplights in the city of two million people.
The grid operator said that the country’s two largest oil -powered power plants, Felton and Antonio Guitrus were back online and were generating electricity by late Sunday night, which was a major benchmark to restore electricity throughout the island.
Officials said that there was also electricity in the western western pinner del Rio province of the country, which was seen to be restored just before the darkness on Sunday, the officials said.
The fall of Friday’s grid marked the fourth nationwide blackout of the Caribbean Island from October.
Cuban oil -powered power plants are already obsolete and struggling to maintain light, last year reached a complete crisis in the form of oil imports from Venezuela, Russia and Mexico.
Even before the fall of Friday grid, many people in the island were already experiencing daily blackouts that had reached 20 hours or more.
Although Cuba had progressed to restore electricity on Sunday, officials said that they were producing only one-third of a specific daily demand, leaving many inhabitants in the dark.
The Ministry of Education said that Pinar Dell Rio, Artemisa and schools in Mayabek provinces in western Cuba will remain closed to assure adequate conditions for students till Tuesday.
Cuba blamed the country’s growing energy crisis on the US President Donald Trump on a Cold War-erastical American trade embarrago and the latest sanctions, who recently tightened the restrictions on the government-run government and vowed to restore a “difficult” policy towards the American enemy for a long time.
The government is emphasizing on developing large solar fields with the help of China to reduce dependence on ancient oil -powered generation.
