A fault in a high-voltage line left most of the circuits in Santa Clara, the capital of Villa Clara, without electricity this Thursday, amid an energy crisis that has subjected many households in the province to prolonged blackouts.
The interruption occurred due to a "trip" in a 110 kilovolt (kV) line, as and reported by the Cuban News Agency (ACN).
Carlos Benavides Navarro, director of the Electric Company in Villa Clara, explained that the interruption affects only Santa Clara and does not extend to other municipalities in the province. He specified that the restoration of service will be gradual and will depend on the technical conditions of the system.
Authorities did not specify a time for the complete restoration of the supply.
More than a hundred circuits without electricity in Villa Clara
The failure reported in Santa Clara is compounded by the deficit in electricity generation affecting the rest of Villa Clara.
In an , the provincial Electric Company reported an impact of 215 megawatts (MW) due to generation capacity shortfall, with 148 circuits out of service.
The entity also reported 417 incidents related to secondary outages and service disruptions, of which 202 were in Santa Clara, as well as two outages in the process of being resolved and another 75 awaiting technical assistance.
These figures reflect the overall electrical situation in Villa Clara and do not solely correspond to the tripping of the 110 kV line that affected Santa Clara.
The incident exacerbates an already critical situation for the residents of the province. Just this week, a state-owned company acknowledged that families in Remedios had been without electricity for over 45 days, a situation that has caused food losses and significant difficulties in meeting basic needs.
In July 2026, the Minister of Energy and Mines, Vicente de la O Levy, had acknowledged that some Cuban communities faced 105 consecutive days without electricity due to failures in special transformers that are difficult to replace.
The crisis has also been exacerbated by the shutdown of Unit 4 at the CTE Carlos Manuel de Céspedes plant in Cienfuegos.
As problems with generation and distribution persist, the residents of Santa Clara face a new outage that highlights the vulnerability of Cuba’s electrical infrastructure and the daily uncertainty for those who do not know when they will have power again.
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