Considerable increase in power outages following a breakdown at the Antonio Guiteras thermoelectric plant.

The shutdown of the Antonio Guiteras Thermoelectric Power Plant (CTE) due to boiler problems has significantly increased power outages in Cuban homes.

Only in the province of Matanzas, where this power station is located, the impact on Friday night was estimated at a generation deficit of 125 MW.

The official journalist José Miguel Solís expressed on his Facebook page that he does not remember that in that province there have been higher figures, attesting to the negative magnitude of the issue.

An informative note issued by the Cuban Electric Union stated that "yesterday the service was affected due to a deficit in generation capacity in the National Electrical System 24 hours a day, managing to be restored at 03:41 in the early hours of today."

In that sense, the greatest impact was felt around 8:30 p.m., coinciding with peak hours, with approximately 1,138 MW. "Higher than planned due to demand exceeding by 72 MW," they point out.

In the report, they add that the availability of the National Electric System (SEN) at 7:00 a.m. was 2,160 MW, while the demand was around 2,250 MW, resulting in an impact of 135 MW.

For the midday schedule, they forecasted a peak demand of 450 MW.

The conditions do not seem promising for the afternoon-evening schedule, when the electric peak is concentrated. For this schedule, where the family cooks the meals and spends most of the time at home, an availability of 2,310 MW and a maximum demand of 3,100 MW are estimated, resulting in a deficit of 790 MW.

If these conditions planned by UNE continue, an impact of 860 MW is forecasted at this time.

Currently, the Guiteras CTE, unit 6 of the Renté CTE, unit 2 of the Santa Cruz CTE (in the start-up process), and unit 2 of the Felton CTE are out of order.

While unit 1 of the Santa Cruz CTE is undergoing maintenance, they assured.

These conditions impose limitations on the thermal generation of 364 MW.

There are 45 distributed generation plants, and the Santiago de Cuba power plant is out of service due to a lack of fuel, representing a total of 279 MW affected by this issue, as mentioned in their statement.

However, they clarify that for the peak, the entry of Distributed Generation engines that are out of service due to fuel shortage with 100 MW is estimated, the recovery of 50 MW in the Santiago barge, and the entry of unit 2 of the Santa Cruz CTE with 65 MW.