One of the six legs of Karadeniz Holding, a Turkish company that helps mitigate the electricity deficit in Cuba, left this Wednesday from Havana Bay to Guyana, a country that faces a serious energy crisis.
The barge is expected to arrive in the South American nation within two weeks, adding some 36 MW of electricity to the national grid, the digital media reported. The St. Kitts-Nevis Observer.
Officials of the Ministry of Public Works Guyanese reported that it will be integrated into the Demerara Berbice Interconnected System (DBIS) for 24 months, “offering much-needed relief.”
The Minister of Guyana, Deodat Indar, pointed out that the problem of blackouts is temporary, at the same time he stressed that there is a plan to solve it.
With the arrival of the patana, it will be "faced with the shortage of generation capacity, so that we can act as a bridge until gas reaches energy with 300 megawatts. It will take it to a total of more than 500 megawatts" said Minister Indar.
A heavy loader from Liberia, used to transport large vessels such as patanas, was in Havana since last March, the site reported. Cuban Diary.
Jorge Piñón, director of the Energy Program for Latin America and the Caribbean at the University of Texas, explained to the aforementioned media that this naval vehicle was anchored in the Atares inlet, next to the Turkish floating generation plants.
The departure of this Turkish moron towards Guyana further aggravates the tense situation of generation deficit in Cuba, which causes unrest among the population.
Only five of the eight Karadeniz vessels that were operating on the Island remain in operation, after the arrival of the first in 2019.
Two floating power plants are still located in the port of Mariel (the Baris Bay, which produces 40MW, and the Ela Sultan, which provides 65MW), which supply the companies in the Mariel Special Development Zone.
According to Cuban Diary Three others operated in Havana: the Belgin Sultán (15MW) and the Suheyla Sultán (240MW) are connected to the Melones/Tallapiedra substation, in Havana Bay, while a third, anchored in the Guanabacoa cove, lack of confirmation, it could be the one that was transferred to Guyana.
Finally, the Erin Sultan, with 130MW of generation capacity, is in the bay of Santiago de Cuba.
The fragility of the National Electroenergy System (SEN) and the dependence of the generation on Turkish land was evident at the beginning of the year when the eastern region of the island was left in darkness.
The crisis was caused by the shutdown of the Turkish floating power plant that is docked in the Bay of Santiago and synchronized to the SEN.
According to the explanation offered by the Cuban Electrical Union, the massive blackout was due to an “internal failure” in the plant. However, the newspaper Trabajadores indicated that the paralysis of the floating plant was due to a lack of fuel.
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