In the midst of an energy crisis that keeps the population under prolonged hours of blackout, the Cuban regime announced this Friday that Unit 4 of theCienfuegos Thermoelectric Plant will be out of service for maintenance for 35 days.
"At the beginning of the year, block four maintenance was planned to resolve boiler problems, especially in the exchange surface, superheater and superheater; and this intervention due to the situation of the SEN (National Electroenergetic System) was postponed until second quarter of the year",reported José Osvaldo González, director of the Carlos Manuel de Céspedes thermoelectric plant in Cienfuegos.
He explained that currently Unit 4 ispresenting difficulties and only generates 100 MW of its 158 MW capacity.
According to the manager, the unit will be intervened when the work of the Mariel and Felton Thermoelectric Plants is finished, at the end of May.
"The intervention is scheduled for the end of May, when we will beginrepairs for 35 days," he explained.
González stated that the manufacturing of the superheater and the reheater that will replace the ones currently working has already been completed.
Other equipment with the same function is being manufactured in the workshops, and the authorities hope that the new reheaters can last 20 more years.
The Cuban authorities have been repairing their dilapidated thermoelectric plants in stages, in order to reduce the blackouts that generate so much popular discontent.
In recent days it has been seen that the energy crisis does not give respite to Cubans, who have once again suffered long andcrippling power outages, a situation that makes many fear what will happen when summer arrives.
The Electrical Union (UNE) announced an all-day electricity cut for Wednesday, after the service was affected the previous day due to a deficit in generation capacity from 5:21 a.m. to 1:27 a.m. .
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