Cuban ruler Miguel Díaz-Canel visited the National Load Dispatch of the Electric Union of Cuba (UNE) with the aim of supervising the restoration of the National Electric System (SEN) following the second widespread collapse that occurred this Saturday.
This was reported by the presidency of Cuba in a message disseminated through X, in which it stated that the also first secretary of the Communist Party "checked in real-time the restoration work of the electric power system in the East, Center, and West."
"It works by priorities to achieve stability and to increase electricity coverage," added the Presidency account, which shared a video of the visit of the leader designated by Raúl Castro, accompanied by the also nonagenarian commander Ramiro Valdés.
On his personal account on the mentioned social network, Díaz-Canel stated that "work is being done hard and tirelessly to restore the electricity system."
"Admirable is the wisdom and composure of those who are at the forefront of these complex hours, many of them young," added the leader who at the beginning of the year devised a strategy with his ministers to reduce blackouts in the summer and gradually recover the generation capacity of the SEN.
After the first widespread blackout, which occurred around noon this Friday after the Guiteras thermoelectric plant went offline, Díaz-Canel sent a message expressing concern about the critical situation.
"From the country's leadership, we are giving absolute priority to the attention and resolution of this highly sensitive energy contingency for the nation," wrote the leader. "There will be no rest until its restoration," he added.
Early on Saturday, the SEN was still collapsed, but "microsystems" with distributed energy (generating sets) were beginning to be created, with the main objective of supplying electric power to the thermal power plants for their start-up.
"Winning in strength in the microsystems allows us at some point to start interconnecting systems to achieve a national link at some moment," explained Lázaro Guerra Hernández, the director of Electricity at the Ministry of Energy and Mines (MINEM).
However, the SEN collapsed completely again this Saturday morning, undoing the minimal progress achieved and forcing the occupant of the Palace to move to the National Cargo Office to "lead" the recovery of the SEN.
Despite the impact on the Internet caused by the collapse of the SEN, social media is ablaze with messages dedicated to the leader of "continuity," emphasizing his ineptitude and responsibility for the unprecedented crisis he has plunged the country into.
"Do you know why in the National Cargo Office many are young and there are hardly any experienced people to operate it?… because the experienced ones have left the country in the last two years. Ask, ask how many have left in the last two years so you can see that it's true," said the user identified on X as Taoro.
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