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The leader Miguel Díaz-Canel and Commander Ramiro Valdés inaugurated this Friday the first Chinese solar park in Havana, built thanks to collaboration with China.
Located in the Cotorro municipality, the "Nursing School" park is the first of these facilities under the so-called Project B, which is expected to contribute 1000 MW to the National Electroenergetic System (SEN) this year.
"It's a beauty," commented the account on X of the Presidency of Cuba.
The information details that all the parks in the project have a capacity of 21.8 MW, generated on 1,638 tables on which 42,588 panels are placed.
Ricardo Mangana Pérez, director of the Renewable Energy Sources Company (Emfre), told the newspaper Granma that in recent days the necessary generation tests have been conducted, and on Thursday the maximum generation of 21.7 MW was achieved.
According to the specialist, the operation of this park will result in a savings of more than 8,500 tons of diesel fuel annually.
Around 20 Cuban companies participated in the setup of the site, with expertise provided by specialists from China, who supplied the technology.
In the midst of an unprecedented energy crisis, the government is promoting renewable energies, which account for less than 5% of the national energy matrix.
The Electric Union has intensified its media campaign on the construction of solar parks with new posts about photovoltaic projects on its social networks.
But while many of these projects are still in the early stages, Cubans are enduring long blackouts due to a lack of investment in electrical infrastructure and dependence on imported fossil fuels.
The government announced that it will build 55 solar parks with a total capacity of 1,200 megawatts by the end of the year, but given its record of unfulfilled promises, the population doubts that solar energy will be able to rescue a collapsing energy system from crisis.
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