Havana Electric Company attributes blackouts in Boyeros and Guanabacoa to “triggered circuits”

TheElectric Company of Havana attributed theblackouts occurred this Sunday in the municipalities of Boyeros and Guanabacoa to “triggered circuits.”

In a statement published in theirsocial networks, thestate company It informed its customers that the circuits that supplied electricity to these municipalities had “triggered” and offered “apologies for the inconvenience caused.”

In the townBoyeros(more than 200,000 inhabitants), the residents of Cujae, Santiago de las Vegas, La Caridad, Villanueva, Sierra Maestra, Expocuba, Lutgardita, Tessie, Santa Susana, Nuevo Santiago, La Especial, Mulgoba and El were affected by the incident. Balloon.

For its part, inGuanabacoa (630,535 inhabitants), the residents of Berroa and the Berroa Industrial Zone (affected by possible breakdown in the circuits) suffered blackouts for this reason.

“The pertinent actions are taken to restore as soon as possible,” indicated the Electric Company of the capital.

The collapse of the national electrical energy system (SEN), burdened by the defective functioning of old facilities without proper maintenance, adds to the energy crisis that the country is experiencing and complicates the supply of electricity to users.

For this Sunday, theElectrical Union of Cuba (UNE) estimated "for the peak hour an availability of 2,063 MW and a maximum demand of 2,950 MW, for a deficit of 887 MW", soannounced damages of 957 MW during that time.

More than half of February has passed, blackouts in Cuba continue to occur on a massive, prolonged and systematic basis.

After the dates of New Year's celebrations, the Cuban population has witnessed a drastic cut in energy generation, a situation that the UNE tries to normalize with its daily informative notes.

Although in the first days of January, the state company warned ofpower outages around 200 MW, in the middle of the month the first massive blackouts of the year already occurred,with impacts greater than 800 MW.

The trend has been increasing and, for a couple of weeks, Cubans have been experiencing power outages throughout the day,exceeding 900 and 1,000 MW of impacts during peak hours.