Cuba's Electric Union (UNE) forecasts a 1,400 MW capacity shortfall during peak hours this Wednesday.
The high figure is even greater than on Tuesday, when a deficit of 1,100 MW had been anticipated; the actual reality was even worse, reaching 1,279 MW.
According to the daily report, service was disrupted for 24 hours the previous day. The peak impact (1,279 MW) occurred at 6:40 PM, primarily affecting the provinces from Matanzas to Guantánamo.
At that peak demand time, there were 199 MW affected due to electrical grid failures caused by Hurricane Rafael (Pinar del Río 53 MW, Artemisa 110 MW, Havana 19 MW, and Mayabeque 17 MW).
The blackout lasted throughout the early hours of this Wednesday.
The service was restored in Pinar del Río at 2:19 AM today.
Five units from the Mariel, Cienfuegos, Felton, and Renté thermoelectric plants remain out of service, and maintenance on three other blocks at the Renté, Santa Cruz, and Cienfuegos power plants has not yet been completed.
There are 45 distributed generation plants out of service due to a lack of fuel, with a total capacity of 113 MW, along with the Santiago de Cuba plant with 67 MW (180 MW in total), and the limitations in thermal generation amount to 388 MW.
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