Blackouts on this Friday due to a deficit of 715 MW during peak hours.

Cuba's Electric Union (UNE) forecasts power outages for this Friday, with an impact of 300 MW at noon and 715 MW during peak hours.

On Thursday, the service was affected due to a generation capacity deficit from 11:22 am to 12:00 pm, and then again from 4:12 pm, continuing throughout the early hours of Friday. The maximum impact was 689 MW at 8:20 pm.

According to the report shared on the Facebook profile, three units from the Rente, Santa Cruz, and Felton thermoelectric plants are out of operation due to malfunctions.

In addition, 43 distributed generation plants are out of service due to a lack of fuel, which represents 281 MW affected, and there are limitations in thermal generation of around 447 MW.

This week, the Minister of Energy and Mines, Vicente de La O Levy, acknowledged that the government's strategy to prevent blackouts in the summer has failed.

According to the executive, during the first half of the year, the planned maintenance was carried out, which anticipated that there would be some levels of impact in the order of four hours from January to June 30.

"What was not fulfilled was the issue of the hours we had planned. What happened? That along with the maintenance load we had anticipated, there were significant impacts this semester regarding fuel," said De la O Levy in the television Round Table.

"There were significant impacts regarding fuel, especially in the months of March, May, and some days in June," added the official, who admitted that blackouts reached "up to 12 hours in some places."