Cuba seems to be entering a new stage of collapse of the national electroenergy system (SEN), with generation deficits greater than 800 MW, which involve frequent and prolonged blackouts in homes.
The Electrical Union of Cuba (UNE) predicted damage throughout the day for this Monday, which would be 881 MW for peak hour. In just seven days, the expected damage figures have almost tripled, going from 330 MW on Monday, April 29, to the values reported the day before.
In this scenario, the resurgence of unrest in the population stands out again, a situation that the authorities fear due to its relationship with spontaneous protest demonstrations throughout the Island, like those recorded on previous occasions (Havana, Nuevitas, Santiago de Cuba...) in which the SEN collapsed due to breakdowns or fuel shortages.
The irritation among UNE clients is evident on the socialist company's social networks, where comments are pouring in from Cubans outraged by a situation that aggravates the hardships they suffer.
No matter how much they try to convey the regime's message following the dictates of the Palace, pro-government journalists know what such a significant drop in electricity generation means, and they perceive the mood in public opinion.
This is the case of the journalist Radio Rebelde, Jose Miguel Solís, from Matanzas specialized in news about the SEN and electricity generation in the country, who this Monday shared a message on Facebook revealing the concern that overwhelms.
“This is reported by the page of the Matanzas electricity company... The panorama is tense,” said Solís in a brief publication in which he shared screenshots of the messages that the Matanzas electricity company shares through its social networks to inform to the population from the effects on the electrical fluid.
Similar notices were spread on their social networks by electrical companies in other Cuban provinces, such as Holguín, Granma or Santiago de Cuba, as noted in a publication by Facebook the user Edmundo Dantes Junior.
Also the Radio Varadero journalist and former director of the Union of Journalists and Writers of Cuba (UPEC) in Matanzas, Yirmara Torres Hernandez, showed his discomfort with the situation.
"We need to know if they are not going to turn on the electricity anymore. In Los Mangos we go for 6 hours straight. Not for nothing, we hold on, it is to prepare ourselves..." he said in the official journalist.
Indeed, everything indicates that this “tense panorama” will continue in the coming days, with the out of service for 25 days of unit 1 of the Felton thermoelectric plant. The "scheduled maintenance" of the Holguin plant, plus the endless series of breakdowns and fuel shortages for distributed generation, lead one to believe in a worsening of blackouts in Cuba.
The advance of the calendar, the arrival of summer and the increase in demand for electrical energy will once again test the "plans and strategies" of the government of the "continuity" of the ruler Miguel Diaz-Canel to get out of this “contingency”, “correct distortions” and “move forward” so that “next year will be better.”
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