Blackouts continue to rise in Cuba, and this is ample evidence of the 945 MW of damage predicted by the Electrical Union (UNE) of Cuba for this Tuesday.
Yesterday the service was affected due to a deficit in generation capacity throughout the day. The maximum impact on the day was 1,090 MW at 8:50 p.m., during peak hours. As usually happens, the number of blackouts was higher, in this case 350 than the 750 that were expected.
The availability of the National Electroenergy System (SEN) at 7:00 a.m. As of May 14, it was 2,000 MW and the demand was 2,625 MW, with 622 MW affected by a deficit in generation capacity.
At the national level, it is estimated onedaytime production that will be on average 750 MW, a really high figure when it comes to the forecast for the day.
"The fundamental element that is affecting the impacts on the service is that seven generating units are out of service for one reason or another, whether due to breakdown or maintenance," said Lázaro Guerra, technical director of UNE, in statements to Canal Caribe.
At this time, unit 6 of the Mariel CTE, units 5 and 6 of the Nuevitas CTE, and unit 2 of the Felton CTE are out of service due to a breakdown.
Units 1 and 3 of the CTE Santa Cruz, unit 1 of the CTE Felton and unit 3 of the CTE Renté are under maintenance.
Lázaro Guerra was optimistic and says that tomorrow unit 6 of the Mariel CTE and 6 of Nuevitas are expected to rejoin. Furthermore, he believes that tomorrow Unit 3 of Renté will also be able to return to service, thus warning the Cubans that today is very bad, but that tomorrow it will be less bad (although we will have to see how much).
The limitations on thermal generation are 308 MW.
33 distributed generation plants are out of service due to fuel, with 279 MW affected by this concept.
The estimated peak is unit 5 of the Nuevitas CTE with 75 MW, the input of unit 4 of Energas Boca de Jaruco with 30 MW, the input of Distributed Generation engines that are out of fuel with 80 MW and the entry of Distributed Generation engines that are awaiting maintenance and their use is authorized with 90 MW.
With this forecast, an availability of 2,275 MW and a maximum demand of 3,150 MW are estimated for peak hour, for a deficit of 875 MW, so if the forecast conditions continue, an impact of 945 MW is forecast during that time.
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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