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The Cuban journalist Yuliet Pérez Calaña (Yuliet PC), known as “La Yuli de Cuba,” shared an interesting story on social media that took place during a blackout.
This Friday, around 8:00 PM, she had put water on to heat for a shower, but the power outage left her without a charged phone, and she ended up showering in the dark, “with the house like the mouth of a wolf.”
According to his account, he asked his partner, Rolo, to pour hot water into a bucket and then proceeded to take a shower.
She said she came out "clean and fragrant", although she noticed a strange sensation on her skin, which she attributed to a new lavender gel she was using.
Yuliet, a journalist living in Isla de la Juventud, sat down on the porch to wait for the return of the electricity.
When the light finally returned, she went to the kitchen to tidy up and discovered that the water she had set to heat was still there.
With fear, he asked Rolo which water he brought for the bath. He replied that it was from "the pot that was next to it."
Then her mother intervened: that pot was where she had boiled the plantains for the fufu for the meal.
The author wrapped up the episode in a humorous tone, joking that bathing with okra "makes everything slide off," bathing with banana water "sure locks you up", and concluded with an ironic statement about starting 2026 off in a tight spot.
The National Electric System (SEN) registered a maximum deficit of 1,917 MW this Friday, and on Saturday, it faced a similar situation, with a forecasted deficit of up to 1,915 MW during peak hours.
Yesterday, the service was continuously affected, with a peak impact due to a generation capacity deficit of 1,917 MW at 6:30 PM.
Despite the addition of 33 new photovoltaic solar parks, which generated 2,452 MWh and reached a peak power of 515 MW at noon, the contribution did not offset the shutdown of multiple thermal units and the lack of fuel.
At 6:00 AM on Saturday, the availability of the National Electric System (SEN) was 1,565 MW against a demand of 2,324 MW, resulting in an immediate shortfall of 796 MW.
Among the main incidents are breakdowns in units 5 and 8 of the Máximo Gómez thermoelectric power plant (Mariel) and in unit 2 of the Felton thermoelectric power plant (Mayarí), as well as scheduled maintenance for units 2 and 3 of the Santa Cruz del Norte thermoelectric power plant and unit 4 of the Carlos Manuel de Céspedes thermoelectric power plant in Cienfuegos.
In addition, the limitations in thermal generation keep 548 MW offline.
For the mid-morning schedule, an impact of nearly 900 MW was estimated.
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