This Monday, Cuba experienced a day with strong blackouts, as can be seen from the more than 1,000 MW of maximum impact reported by the Electrical Union (UNE) in its part on May 7, which summarized the energy behavior of the previous day.
The deficit in generation capacity was 24 hours and the maximum impact figure was exactly 1,091 MW at 8:40 p.m., 210 MW higher than the 881 MW that the UNE had planned.
The worst thing is that the outlook does not improve much in view of the forecast for this Tuesday, when A deficit of 880 MW is forecast during peak hours.
The availability of the National Electroenergy System (SEN) at 7:00 a.m. As of May 7, it was 1,900 MW and the demand was 2,350 MW, with 470 MW affected by capacity deficit in the system. A daytime impact is estimated to be on average 700 MW.
At this time, unit 6 of the CTE Renté and unit 2 of the CTE Felton are out of service due to a breakdown.
Units 1 and 3 of the CTE Santa Cruz, unit 6 of the CTE Nuevitas, unit 8 of the CTE Mariel and unit 1 of the CTE Felton are under maintenance.
The limitations on thermal generation are 367 MW.
35 distributed generation plants and the Patana de Regla are out of service due to fuel, with 342 MW affected in this concept.
For the peak hour, the entry of unit 6 of the CTE Renté with 60 MW is estimated; the entry of six engines in Patana de Regla with 55 MW; the entry of five engines in the Patana de Melones with 75 MW and the entry of Distributed Generation engines that are out of fuel with 100 MW.
With this forecast, an availability of 2,190 MW and a maximum demand of 3,000 MW are estimated for peak hour, for a deficit of 810 MW. This implies that, if the forecast conditions continue, an impact of 880 MW is forecast for peak hour.
As happens in every part of the UNE, dozens of Internet users have reacted with indignation to the announcement.
"There is no doubt that they are surpassing themselves every day. I suppose that by July and August only the houses of the leaders, the hotels and tourist areas will be lit, the rest in darkness," predicted a Cuban.
"They deserve a Nobel Prize for excellent maintenance planning"; "Without words. Since they give us feathers as a core and we dance the areito. In the same way we already look like cavemen"; "This is dying in installments"; "This will be until we all sound the cauldrons," were some opinions.
They were not missing either criticism of the few blackouts in the capital in relation to the rest of the country, which has become a recurring complaint among residents in other provinces.
"Is there no deficit in Havana or is it another country?", questioned one commentator.
A month and a half before summer officially begins, Cuba seems to be flirting with the collapse of the national electricity system.
Jose Miguel Solís, journalist from Matanzas specialized in electricity generation in the country, He described this Monday as "tense" the energy panorama.
The situation, furthermore, does not seem to be improving in the coming days, after the announcement of the end of service this Monday for 25 days, due to "scheduled maintenance", of unit 1 of the Felton thermoelectric plant.
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