TheTurkish floating power plant Karadeniz Powership "Erin Sultan" arrived this Sunday at the port of Santiago de Cuba, from which it will be connected to the national electroenergy system (SEN).
“The new 110 kv Turkish floating thermoelectric plant is already anchored in our Santiago bay. With its location, a balance in the load capacity in the east is expected,” he indicated in hissocial networks the user identified as Owen Camacho.
A photograph shared in its recent publication allows you to see the ship moored in one of the docks of the port of Santiago.
The 240 MW Turkish floating power plantleft the port of Havana this Tuesday and sailed through territorial waters bound for Santiago de Cuba, according to reports from journalists from official media.
"A floating plant is sailing towards Santiago de Cuba that will replace the one located in the eastern bay. The one that has already left Santiago has fulfilled its contract period in Cuba," said Cuban television reporter Lázaro Manuel Alonso, citing the annual meeting as a source. of the Ministry of Energy and Mines.
At the end of February,The government announced that it would move a “mobile generation” unit to eastern Cuba to alleviate the acute electro-energy crisis in the country, after three massive blackouts that mainly affected the eastern region.
“That is not done in a day. We have to start the engines of mobile generation, we have to move it there, we have to create conditions, but we are working at an accelerated pace,” explained the general director of the Electrical Union (UNE),Alfredo Lopez Valdes.
The decision, added to the entry into the SEN of the Felton thermoelectric plant, whose maintenance ended in the first days of March, were the keys to the strategy to end theserious crisis that leaves Cuba in the dark, according to the official.
“There is the solution to the problem: that Felton enters, and that we have that mobile generation in that area,” said López Valdés, stating that work was already underway in Santiago de Cuba to “receive the mobile generation.”
The first of Marchsynchronized block one of the Felton thermoelectric plant to the SEN, just as planned. But three weeks later,was disconnected from the SEN after a boiler breakdown.
In February, the Ministry of Energy and Mines reported the arrival in Havana Bay of the "Erin Sultan" floating power plant,the eighth of its kind installed in Cuba. On that occasion, the entity explained that its arrival in the Cuban capital was "to support the generation of electricity in the country."
In MarchThe KPS Irem Sultan Floating Power Station anchored in Santiago de Cuba coming from Havana, with a generation capacity of 114 MW. According to the authorities, with their arrival the generation in that area of the country necessary to cover demand was increased.However, he weighed anchor and left less than a month later..
"These types of vessels with energy technology allow maintenance of other thermoelectric plants, contribute to increasing the national reserve and replace the use of diesel, one of the most expensive fuels in electricity generation," the Santiago official press reported at the time.
The floating power plants - designed on a boat to which motors are placed - have been operating in Cuba since 2019 and are the result of an agreement between the government and the Turkish company Karadeniz Holding.
According to the words of López Valdés in February, the displacement of a mobile generation unit to the east of the country would serve to balance a system in which “there is a high concentration of generation in the western half and, therefore, a high transfer from the western zone to the eastern one.”
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