The provinces of Santiago de Cuba and Guantánamo were left in the dark this Saturday due to the shutdown of the Turkish floating power plant (patana) that is docked in the Bay of Santiago and synchronized to the National Electric Energy System (SEN).
“At 09:04 pm an internal failure occurred in the floating generation of Santiago that triggered service outages of the 110 kV lines of the provinces of Santiago de Cuba and Guantánamo, at 10:25 pm. The damage was restored. The root cause of the failure in the floating plant is determined for its subsequent commissioning,” the company briefly stated.Electrical Union of Cuba (UNE) in astatement.
According to the explanation offered by the state company, the massive blackout was due to an “internal failure” that is being investigated. However, in its edition this Saturday, the official newspaperWorkers warned of blackouts due to breakdowns in six thermoelectric plants, which would cause a “deficit in generation capacity.”
“The supply capacity of the electrical system is also reduced due to the paralysis of the floating plant (patana) located in Santiago de Cuba due to lack of fuel,” the note warned.half official.
Low on fuel or internal failure? Once again, the information offered by the UNE is imprecise and incomplete, revealing the manipulations that characterize the information policy of the company it directs.Alfredo Lopez Valdes.
At the end of March,The KPS Irem Sultan floating power plant arrived in the bay of Santiago de Cuba. According to statements ofRaimundo González Guillén, general director of the Antonio Maceo Thermoelectric Power Plant (Renté), the wasteland already had its six engines operating and contributing 95 MW of generation to the SEN.
The manager explained that "such a result reflects the quality of the prior preparation at the site intended for anchoring the installation, the safe supply of fuel and the effective synchronization to the SEN."
In February, López Valdés had announced thatThey would move a “mobile generation” unit to eastern Cuba to alleviate the acute electro-energy crisis that had causedfour massive blackouts in less than 10 days.
However, in April a 240 MW Turkish floating power plant left the port of Havana.bound for Santiago de Cuba to replace the Irem Sultan. According to the official journalistLazaro Manuel Alonso, Irem Sultan had already completed “her contract time in Cuba.”
The floating power plants have been operating in Cuba since 2019 and are the result of an agreement between the island and the Turkish company Karadeniz Holding. The Cuban regime hired up to eight of this company, despite the majority opinion of experts about its ineffectiveness in providing a solution to the serious crisis that the SEN is going through.
"This type of vessel with energy technology allows maintenance of other thermoelectric plants, contributes to increasing the national reserve and replaces the use of diesel, one of the most expensive fuels in electricity generation," noted the Santiago press last March. However, 2024 begins and neither nonsense nor corrections of “distortions” have just solved the serious problem of blackouts in Cuba.
The UNE forecast for this Saturday,warned of impacts of 821 MW during peak hours, mainly due to fuel deficit in distributed generation.
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