UNE asks Cubans not to connect appliances once the power supply is restored.

Engaged in restoring the power supply after the total collapse of the national electro-energy system (SEN), the Electric Union of Cuba (UNE) urged its customers not to connect high-consumption appliances once service is restored in their homes.

"The UNE requests that all customers, please, as long as they receive electric service, do not connect high-consumption equipment," indicated the official journalist Lázaro Manuel Alonso on his social media.

With the SEN completely collapsed since last Friday at noon, the engineers from the state company have been trying to restore the system with little success, experiencing failures up to three times during the process.

The limited power achieved with the "microsystems" has not been sufficient to distribute electric fluid to Cubans, nor even to provide a stable supply to the country's thermoelectric plants to restart their operations.

The result has been a process of ups and downs, with unbalanced fluctuations between demand and the energy supplied, which has caused, according to the UNE, breakdowns in thermoelectric units and customers without service for more than 48 hours.

The UNE addressed these on Monday, shifting part of the responsibility for the success or failure of its efforts to restore the SEN.

"It is important for all of us to contribute to the gradual stabilization of the electrical energy system, so that it does not face abrupt demands that it cannot yet withstand, which could cause it to collapse again," explained the UNE according to Alonso.

Beyond the insecurity in the technical decisions being made, the message from the UNE reveals how far removed the authorities of the Cuban regime are from the plight of thousands of Cuban families, who have been left without electricity, water, and food due to the widespread blackout.

Hundreds of thousands of Cubans who still remain without electricity service fear the losses that the collapse of the energy system is causing in their homes.

"52 hours without power and it still hasn’t arrived, all my food has spoiled, I have not a healthy nerve," pointed out Cuban activist Adelth Bonne Gamboa on Facebook this Sunday, reflecting the feelings of all Cubans who are still without electrical service after the collapse of the SEN.