The Electric Company of Havana publishes the power outage schedule until Sunday.

The Electric Company of Havana, which announced on Thursday in a press release that "due to an emergency" blocks 1 and 2 of the capital would be shut down for four hours, has published the blackout schedule in Havana from October 24 to 27.

This Thursday, the entity urged the population to "use electricity in a rational manner, in order to reduce consumption in the province, avoid overloads in the networks, and prevent service interruptions."

Although on Tuesday the synchronization of the National Electric System (SEN) was achieved after the massive blackout that kept Cubans in the dark since Friday the 18th, Lázaro Guerra Hernández, general director of Electricity at the Ministry of Energy and Mines (MINEM), clarified in statements to television that this did not mean that blackouts in Cuba would come to an end.

"The normal operating regime has begun, which does not mean there are no impacts on the service. There continues to be a generation capacity deficit, therefore, there will be interruptions in the service, but the system itself is already being operated under normal operating conditions," he said.

"At this moment, the impacts are equitable across the country. And the entire system is interconnected. Therefore, the impacts depend on the 'impact strategy' that was in place before the system failure occurred," he concluded. "The remaining provinces have been suffering for months."

The forecast for today at the national level.

Yesterday, starting at 5:48 a.m., an interruption of the electric service was reported due to a deficit in generation capacity, which was restored at 2:15 a.m. today. However, at 5:41 a.m., a new outage was recorded for the same reason.

The greatest impact from generation deficit this Thursday occurred during peak hours, reaching 879 MW at 7:20 p.m. Additionally, 13 MW were reported affected in Guantánamo due to the passing of a hurricane.

For this Friday, the impact is expected to be 946 MW.

Availability at 07:00: 1,937 MW.

Demand: 2,000 MW.

Deficit: 99 MW affected due to lack of generation.

Forecast for noon: an impact of 400 MW.

In failure: units 1 and 3 of the Santa Cruz Thermal Power Plant, unit 3 of the Cienfuegos Thermal Power Plant, and unit 2 of the Felton Thermal Power Plant.

Under maintenance: unit 2 of the CTE Santa Cruz and unit 5 of the CTE Renté.

Thermal generation is limited to 545 MW, and 35 distributed generation plants, with a total capacity of 191 MW, are out of service due to lack of fuel.

During peak hours, the commissioning of unit 1 of the Santa Cruz CTE is expected with 75 MW -currently starting up-, three engines at the Patana de Melones with 48 MW, and four engines at the Mariel CDE with 64 MW.

With these additions, the estimated availability would be 2,124 MW compared to a maximum demand of 3,000 MW, which would result in a deficit of 876 MW and a projected impact of up to 946 MW during peak hours, if conditions do not change.

The situation in Cuba is so critical that this Wednesday, the government announced the extension, until Sunday, October 27, of the suspension of classes at all levels, as well as the suspension of non-essential work activities.