Cuba experienced blackouts greater than planned on Wednesday due to "unexpected outages."

Cuba experienced blackouts exceeding those planned on Wednesday due to "unexpected outages" of two turbines, authorities explained.

The general director of Electricity at the Ministry of Energy and Mines, Lázaro Guerra Hernández, stated on television that on Wednesday there were outages starting in the morning, and during peak hours the impact was 832 MW, exceeding the 550 MW that were scheduled.

According to the executive, this occurred due to a problem at the company Energás, where two turbines stopped functioning.

"A gas turbine and a steam turbine stopped functioning" at 9:00 PM, it noted.

For this Thursday, the Electric Union forecasts an impact of 500 MW, from a maximum demand of 3,150 MW, which indicates that one-sixth of the country will be without electric service amid the intense summer on the island.

Although the regime promised to reduce blackouts during the vacation months and the hottest time of the year, at the end of July it stated that the lack of diesel fuel combined with a couple of "unforeseen" breakdowns prevented the stability of the electric service.