Another day with over 1,000 MW of blackouts in Cuba.

No news on the front: Cubans continue to experience frequent and prolonged blackouts while the Unión Eléctrica de Cuba (UNE) remains unable to produce the energy demanded by the national electric system (SEN), resulting in daily "affectations" exceeding 1,000 megawatts (MW).

The state-owned company persists in its strategy of "informing" its clients daily about the misfortunes that await them throughout the day, managing to "normalize" a critical situation that causes countless sufferings to the population.

For this Wednesday, the UNE predicts "a availability of 2,280 MW and a maximum demand of 3,350 MW, resulting in a deficit of 1,070 MW; thus, if the anticipated conditions persist, a shortfall of 1,140 MW is forecasted during peak hours."

The day before, "the maximum impact due to generation capacity deficit during peak hours was 1,140 MW at 8:00 PM." However, "the service was affected by a generation capacity deficit 24 hours a day."

This Wednesday is no different, and the blackouts continue from the early hours of the day. "The availability of the SEN at 07:00 hours is 2,280 MW, the demand is 2,450 MW, with 203 MW affected by a capacity deficit and 23 MW affected by bad weather conditions in the western part of the country."

"During the peak hours, a deficit impact of 550 MW is estimated," added UNE on its social media.

The lack of fuel continues to affect distributed generation, and unit 8 in Mariel and unit 2 in Felton are out of service. Unit 2 in Santa Cruz and unit 5 in Renté are under maintenance.

The government of Miguel Díaz-Canel, especially its Minister of Energy and Mines, Vicente de la O Levy, and the director of UNE, Alfredo López Valdés, are clear about one thing: behind the supposed "informational transparency" lies the regime's strategy of getting Cubans accustomed to this situation of energy poverty, which they occasionally sprinkle with justifications of the "blockade" and promises of improvement.

"We have to provide electricity to our population before the end of the year," said Díaz-Canel in mid-September. Fifteen days later, De la O Levy confirmed that the SEN will remain equally collapsed until the end of the year and that, hopefully, the blackouts will continue until the end of 2025.

It's nothing new; it is part of the logic of the dictatorial and totalitarian power of Havana, the same one that has imposed a policy of widespread rationing for over 60 years and provided citizens with a supply booklet that controlled the consumption of Cubans and accustomed them to waiting for handouts from a state that gradually removed products from the basic basket, which were never again sold at subsidized prices.

The same logic is now applied to electricity. Day after day, little by little, Cubans receive information from a state company that is unable to produce the megawatts that its customers demand.

The exceptional situation is "normalizing," until one fine day, UNE users realize that the deficit megawatts will not return, and electricity - like meat - will be a good that appears intermittently until the regime creates the Mipymes to sell it.