The never-ending story: Almost 1,000 MW power outages in Cuba's grid.

When it seems like power outages are going to decrease a bit in Cuba, the number of affected areas and forecasts shoot up again.

"They are like the dollar, they go up and down," said an internet user ironically in the last few hours.

The lottery of thermoelectric units entering and exiting service due to breakdowns or maintenance continues to leave a trail of distress and discredit that has deeply affected the Cubans.

In today's report from the Electric Union (UNE), the state entity revealed that there was an impact of 953 MW this Wednesday and they forecast 885 MW of power outages for this Thursday, figures once again close to 1,000 MW, far from the 462 forecasted on Tuesday.

This Wednesday, the service began to be affected due to a capacity deficit at 06:12 a.m. and it was not possible to restore it in the early hours of today.

The highest impact during the day was 953 MW at 8:40 p.m., a time that UNE classified as "coincident with peak hours". The number of power outages was 193 MW higher than the 760 they had anticipated.

The availability of the National Power System (SEN) at 7:00 a.m. was 2,175 MW and the demand was 2,475 MW, with 322 MW affected by generation capacity deficit.

The forecast for power outages during daytime hours for this June 6 is 550 MW.

Three units from three different thermoelectric power plants are out of order: unit 8 of the Mariel CTE, unit 6 of the Nuevitas CTE, and unit 2 of the Felton CTE.

Three other units are under maintenance: Unit 1 of the Santa Cruz CTE, Unit 5 of the Nuevitas CTE, and Unit 5 of the Renté CTE.

The limitations in thermal generation are 361 MW.

58 distributed generation plants are out of service due to fuel issues, affecting a total of 377 MW.

By peak hour, the entry of Distributed Generation engines that are currently out of service due to fuel, totaling 80 MW, is expected, as well as the entry of Unit 8 from the Mariel CTE with 80 MW, which is in the start-up process.

With this forecast, a availability of 2,335 MW is estimated for peak hours and a maximum demand of 3,150 MW, resulting in a deficit of 815 MW. Therefore, if the predicted conditions persist, an impact of 885 MW is forecasted for that time period.

The never-ending story.