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The Electric Union of Cuba reported on Saturday a new massive blackout, a total disconnection of the National Electric System (SEN) at 6:38 p.m.
The UNE did not provide further details on this matter, although it promised to keep informing.
It is about the second total disconnection of the SEN in one week, in the context of a severe energy crisis characterized by the aging of thermal power plants, lack of fuel, and constant breakdowns, factors that lead to daily blackouts across much of the country. This situation is further exacerbated by the oil blockade imposed by the Trump Administration.
The first of these general blackouts of the week, which are becoming increasingly common, occurred last Monday.
On Friday, the First Deputy Minister of Energy and Mines, Argelio Jesús Abad Vigoa, acknowledged that the distributed electricity generation in Cuba is at a standstill due to a lack of fuels, which exacerbates the energy crisis affecting the country.
The official described the current situation as the most complex that the SEN has faced so far, during a press conference in front of journalists and participants of the so-called solidarity convoy "Nuestra América," at the International Press Center in Havana.
Abad explained that the country has gone three months without receiving supplies of diesel, fuel oil, gasoline, aviation turbine fuel, and liquefied petroleum gas, essential fuels for supporting various sectors of the economy and also electricity generation.
The deputy minister admitted that this situation has rendered distributed generation, a system based on engines and small power plants whose installation was promoted by the dictator Fidel Castro (1926-2016), unable to operate. For years, the government presented it as one of the main alternatives to strengthen the national electricity system (SEN).
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