The Electric Union of Cuba announced for this Monday disruptions in the electrical supply exceeding 1,000 MW due to a deficit in its generation capacity.
It is estimated that during peak hours there will be an availability of 2,330 MW and a maximum demand of 3,300 MW, resulting in a deficit of 970 MW. Therefore, if the predicted conditions persist, an impact of 1,040 MW is forecasted at this time," the state-owned company monopolizing the electricity service on the island stated on their social media.
If the day before, the UNE was forecasting blackouts due to a deficit of 1,055 MW, this Monday it recognized that during peak hours the disruptions reached 1,226 MW. This is a "calculation error" that occurs in most of the company's estimates under the direction of Alfredo López Valdés.
The population is desperate. The months of April and May have been particularly hot, even reaching record temperatures, and the power outages of up to 18 hours a day prevent Cubans from resting and keeping perishable food refrigerated.
The credibility of the UNE is the same as that which Cubans give to their government, "cadres" of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) unable to solve the slow-motion collapse that the national power system (SEN) is experiencing.
The "strategy" of Miguel Díaz-Canel's executive was to plan maintenance (and power outages) during these months until June, to have a fully operational summer for the thermoelectric plants and without power cuts. However, Díaz-Canel has already warned that it is impossible to guarantee that power outages will not occur during the months of July and August as well.
Sitting in front of foreign journalist Ignacio Ramonet, the inhabitant of the Palace of the Revolution showed empathy towards Cubans who are suffering from the blackouts that result from the mismanagement of his government. "They have been terrible, up to 20 hours," he said in mid-May. And they still are as of today.
Empathy that he did not show in August 2022, when thousands of Cubans took to the streets to protest in Havana and other cities in the country due to the blackouts they were experiencing. At that time, the ruler called his victims "indecent."
"All this situation has been taken advantage of by the enemies of the revolution to create discouragement, uncertainty; to call for acts of vandalism and terrorism, to promote social disorder, disruption of order and citizens' tranquility," he said. "Unfortunately, there are people who, with a quite indecent, vandal behavior, are willing to engage in those actions," he added.
The arrests and sentences suffered by protesters in Nuevitas, Caimanera, or the Cuban capital itself attest to the "revolutionary violence" displayed by the Cuban totalitarian regime against those who confront them or demand accountability.
Forewarned by the messages of the officialist media serving the CCP and aware of the scope of the "state terrorism" practiced by the totalitarian power of the regime, Cubans express their discomfort and criticism on social networks, restraining their desires to demonstrate against their rulers as much as possible.
"Does anyone remember what it feels like to sleep with no power? We seem like cave people," complained a Cuban on UNE's social media. "Speechless. It's unbearable. Let them leave and hand over the country, anyway, for what they're doing," opined another.
"I sum this up as: 10 units will be coming in this week. Trust, it will be resolved, what we don't know is how many will leave. It's better to take it with humor because there are no pills available and heart attacks are a daily occurrence," commented an internet user.
"They always exceed the deficit they predict, in other words, they surpass the power cut plan," added another Cuban, astonished by the dimensions of an energy crisis that not only exceeds the government's ability to solve it, but also the language's capacity to express it.
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