Guantanamo.- Yoel Pérez García, First Secretary of the Communist Party in Guantánamo Province, met with members of the National Youth Energy Transition Expedition from the Ministry of Energy and Mines, who completed an extensive program of activities in the province.
He briefed them on the installation of ten photovoltaic parks, which together will generate more than 70 megawatts of electricity and help ease pressure on the province’s thermoelectric power plants.
He also discussed the installation of solar panels at health and educational facilities, banks, businesses, agricultural and judicial institutions, and other essential services, as well as in homes in hard-to-reach areas.
The province’s top political leader described the young professionals’ engagement with local residents as highly rewarding and constructive. The group met with people in neighborhoods and communities in Imías and the provincial capital, where they also heard residents’ views on the social and economic benefits of Community Charging and Service Centers, as well as on efforts to repair or replace damaged transformers.
Leonardo Fernández Chivas, Cuba’s coordinator of the Youth Network for the Promotion of the Energy Transition, welcomed Guantánamo’s progress in adopting renewable energy sources, saying it places the province among the country’s leaders. Report by Ventura Figueras Lores.
