Guantanamo.- The United Nations’ FRE Local project, “Renewable Energy Sources for Local Development,” sponsored by the European Union and coordinated by the Ministry of Energy and Mines in Cuba, promotes the use of renewable energy to strengthen resilience in Guantánamo Province.
In rural communities such as La Escondida de Monte Rus and Palenque, located in the municipality of Yateras, solar panels and off-grid photovoltaic systems that support essential services are being maintained.
The local FRE project has installed systems based on renewable energy sources to facilitate access to this resource for people from isolated communities, and thus enable the promotion with which to insert itself into the local productive network.
Local FRE is one of the projects with which the European Union, the UNDP and Cuban institutions such as the University of Sancti Spíritus, the Electrical Union and the territorial governments, work to offer access to energy services through renewable energy sources and the promotion of energy efficiency practices for people from vulnerable communities in the country and environments with potential for local development.
