"The never-ending story": UNE predicts blackouts for more than 700 MW of deficit

The Electrical Union of Cuba (UNE) reported today that this Sunday, when Mother's Day was celebrated in Cuba, the service was affected due to a deficit in generation capacity for almost the entire day, reaching a maximum value of impact. of 829 MW at 11 p.m., coinciding with peak hours.

The figure was higher than the 660 MW that the entity had predicted.

The outlook is even worse today, as they predict a maximum impact of 750 MW at night.

The availability of the National Electroenergy System (SEN) at 7:00 a.m. As of May 13, it was 2,230 MW and the demand was 2,500 MW, with 282 MW affected by a deficit in generation capacity.

A daytime impact is estimated to be on average 500 MW.

At this time, unit 5 of the Nuevitas CTE and unit 2 of the Felton CTE are out of service due to a breakdown.

Yesterday the service was affected due to a deficit in generation capacity from 10:46 a.m. to 12:56 p.m. and since 3:19 p.m., it has not been possible to restore the service. service in the early hours of today.

Units 1 and 3 of the CTE Santa Cruz, unit 1 of the CTE Felton and unit 8 of the CTE Mariel are under maintenance.

The limitations on thermal generation are 363 MW. 32 distributed generation plants are out of service due to fuel, with 266 MW affected by this concept.

For the peak, the entry of Distributed Generation engines that are out for fuel is estimated at 100 MW and the entry of Distributed Generation engines that are awaiting maintenance and their use is authorized at 90 MW.

After the usual formulas of addition and subtraction of daily MW, an availability of 2,420 MW and a maximum demand of 3,100 are estimated for the peak hour, for a deficit of 680 MW.

This implies that, if the expected conditions are maintained, an impact of 750 MW for rush hour.

"The people want results... not to have alight, not the shit... that they post every day for pleasure"; "Without a doubt it does not deserve comment. In the end the conclusion is lack of respect, indolence, ineptitude and inability"; "Until when and to where"; "Without fixing chaos"; "It doesn't clear," were some comments.

Not only is there no sign of improvement in Cuba, the drama of the blackouts, a situation that has millions of Cubans very upset, but also the UNE itself admitted in recent days that The situation will remain critical until the end of June due to the increase in maintenance work at several Thermoelectric Power Plants (CTE).

"As has been reported in these months from January to June, maintenance activities at Thermal, Energy and Distributed Generation Plants are increased with the purpose of reaching the months of greatest consumption and electricity demand, which are July and August, months in addition, the rest of the population", explains a note posted by the entity in Facebook.

The UNE justified "the maintenance plan until the last days of June" in order to minimize the effects in the summer. They clarified, however, that in July and August there will also be blackouts "if there are some unforeseen outages of Generation Units."

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