The Electric Union (UNE) of Cuba announces for this Friday power outages due to a deficit of 1,086 MW during peak hours, a figure that is surely going to be underestimated, given the precedents of previous days.
On Thursday, the service was affected due to a deficit in generation capacity 24 hours a day, a situation that persisted throughout the early morning of this Friday.
The maximum impact was 1580 MW at 6:30 pm, "higher than planned due to unavailability of fuel in the Mariel and Melones trucks and the delayed entry after the peak of unit 3 of the CTE Cienfuegos," according to the UNE report.
The blackout on Thursday was so severe that by 2:00 PM, the electricity deficit exceeded 1270 MW, surpassing what was planned for peak hours. "In several provinces, all possible circuits are down," said the official journalist Lázaro Manuel Alonso.
This Friday at 7:00 am, there were 583 MW affected by a capacity deficit; by noon, an impact of 800 MW was estimated, and by night, 1086 MW.
There are five thermoelectric units not operating due to breakdowns and another two under maintenance.
Additionally, 39 distributed generation plants are out of service due to a lack of fuel, as well as the Patana of Santiago de Cuba, the engines at the Patana of Melones, and the Patana of Regla. All of this represents a total of 401 MW affected: 242 MW in distributed groups and 159 MW in the Patanas.
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