{"id":11628,"date":"2025-01-23T08:05:44","date_gmt":"2025-01-23T13:05:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/?p=11628"},"modified":"2025-01-23T08:05:44","modified_gmt":"2025-01-23T13:05:44","slug":"diesel-engine-generation-expected-to-increase-in-guantanamo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/diesel-engine-generation-expected-to-increase-in-guantanamo\/","title":{"rendered":"Diesel engine generation expected to increase in Guantanamo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11629\" src=\"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/0120-fabrica.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"466\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/0120-fabrica.jpg 720w, https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/0120-fabrica-300x194.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/>Guant\u00e1namo.- The Fuel-Oil Generator Maintenance Enterprise, (EMGEF, in Spanish abbreviation), in Guant\u00e1namo, plans to increase its available capacity to 35 megawatts (MW) in 2025, through 14 scheduled overhaul repair, which would provide an additional 12 MW.<\/p>\n<p>However, this will depend on the arrival of inputs from China, essential to recover generators shutdown\u00a0by the\u00a0lack\u00a0of\u00a0maintenance and spare parts\u00a0that require repair due to operating time, in order not to operate with risks and increase the power of the engines with better service performance, said Carlos Arqu\u00edmides D\u00edaz Luque, from that Base Business Unit (UEB).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He meant that for the EMGEF workers, the last quarter of 2024 was a time of effort and sacrifice, since they operated in Island mode, with a contribution of between 22 and 30 MW of availability, with an installed capacity of 47.6 MW, to serve customers in the face of the three time of disconnection of the National Electric System (SEN), a performance that reaffirmed, once again, its crucial role in distributed power generation in the province.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The feat was possible thanks to the commitment and dedication of the technical staff and operators of both plants: Guant\u00e1namo I and Guant\u00e1namo II, who worked in atypical conditions together with the Electric Generator and Services Company, Geysel, to restore the system, D\u00edaz Luque said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He stressed that this season was also marked by long working days necessary to face the technical challenges associated with the three major maintenances (every 64 thousand hours) carried out and, subsequently, the arrival of Hurricane Oscar forced them to return to carrying out emergency operations, which made 2024 a year of great challenges.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The EMGEF achieved significant progress at the national level thanks to scientific and technical innovations, in addition, for the first time a permit was obtained to manage liquid waste in Guant\u00e1namo I, and a positive evaluation was maintained by Hydraulic Resources in the efficient use of water.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guant\u00e1namo.- The Fuel-Oil Generator Maintenance Enterprise, (EMGEF, in Spanish abbreviation), in Guant\u00e1namo, plans to increase its available capacity to 35 megawatts (MW) in 2025, through 14 scheduled overhaul repair, which would provide an additional 12 MW. However, this will depend on the arrival of inputs from China, essential to recover generators shutdown\u00a0by the\u00a0lack\u00a0of\u00a0maintenance and spare [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11629,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-guantanamo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11628"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11630,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11628\/revisions\/11630"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}