Cuba's electrical grid collapses, leaving entire country without power

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Cuba's electrical grid collapses, leaving entire country without power

时间：2024-10-20 09:35 来源：未知作者：admin 阅读：次

Cuba has been hit by two island-wide blackouts in two days.

In short:

Cuba's electrical grid has collapsed twice in recent days.

The island nation has blamed Hurricane Milton and the US for the outages.

What's next?

The Electric Union is working to restore power.

Cuba's electrical grid has collapsed for the second time in just hours, according to state-run media, blacking out the entire country.

CubaDebate, one of the islands state-run media outlets, said Cuba's grid operator, UNE, had reported at 6:15am, local time, on Saturday the "total disconnection of the national electro-energetic system".

"The Electric Union is working on its re-establishment," the brief message said.

The grid collapsed again just as power was being restored.

Cuba's electrical grid first collapsed at about midday on Friday after one of the island's largest power plants failed, suddenly leaving more than 10 million without power.

Even before the grid's collapse, an electricity shortfall on Friday had forced Cuba's communist government to send non-essential state workers home and cancel school classes for children as it sought to conserve fuel for generation.

But lights began to flicker on in scattered pockets across the island early in the evening on Friday, offering some hope that power would be restored.

The grid operator has not yet provided any details about what caused the grid to collapse again on Saturday, or how long it would take to restore power.

Cubans are becoming accustomed to power outages.

Cuba's government has blamed weeks of worsening blackouts — often 10 to 20 hours a day across much of the island — on deteriorating infrastructure, fuel shortages and rising demand.

Strong winds that began with Hurricane Milton last week had also complicated the island's ability to deliver scarce fuel from boats offshore to feed its power plants, officials have said.

Fuel deliveries to the island have dropped off significantly this year, as Venezuela, Russia and Mexico, once key suppliers, have reduced their exports to Cuba.

The US has denied any involvement in Friday's blackout.

Key ally Venezuela halved its deliveries of subsidised fuel to Cuba this year, forcing the island to search elsewhere for far more pricey oil on the spot market.

Cuba's government also blames the US trade embargo, as well as sanctions under former US president Donald Trump, for ongoing difficulties in acquiring fuel and spare parts to operate and maintain its oil-fired plants.

The United States on Friday denied any role in Cuba's grid collapse.

Reuters

By：https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-10-20/cuba-faces-two-nation-wide-blackouts-in-two-days/104493984

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