{"id":13978,"date":"2025-09-19T15:52:44","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T19:52:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/?p=13978"},"modified":"2025-09-19T15:52:44","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T19:52:44","slug":"minister-of-energy-and-mines-reports-on-power-situation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/minister-of-energy-and-mines-reports-on-power-situation\/","title":{"rendered":"Minister of Energy and Mines Reports on Power Situation"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"\"Guantanamo.- Cuba\u2019s Minister of Energy and Mines, Vicente de la O Levy, briefed the press on the country\u2019s complex energy situation in recent days.<\/p>\n

He explained that power outages worsened this week due to a combination of factors: the shutdown of Felton 1, a malfunction at the Mariel engine site, the trip of Nuevitas 5, and the delayed reentry of Rent\u00e9 5 after maintenance.<\/p>\n

He stressed that the trip of Unit 5 at Nuevitas forced authorities to suddenly cut off a large portion of Havana\u2019s circuits on Monday afternoon to prevent another disconnection and the potential collapse of the National Electric System (SEN).<\/p>\n

Solutions will be implemented gradually for short-, medium-, and long-term generation, but in the immediate term, Felton 1 is expected to return to the SEN this weekend with more than 220 MW, alongside the final adjustments of Rent\u00e9 5.<\/p>\n

The minister noted that the malfunction at Mariel\u2019s engines has already been resolved.<\/p>\n

In October, the SEN is scheduled to recover Unit 4 of the Carlos Manuel de C\u00e9spedes Thermoelectric Plant and Unit 2 of Santa Cruz del Norte, both of which had been undergoing maintenance. These units were originally slated to return in the summer but were delayed.<\/p>\n

De la O Levy added that the country has secured the resources to undertake a full overhaul of the Antonio Guiteras plant beginning in December, a period that coincides with the lowest electricity demand of the year.<\/p>\n

He emphasized that the current situation remains tense, as restoring plants and their equipment requires significant financial resources. Thanks to the efforts of energy-sector workers, he said, the plants continue to provide service despite more than 40 years of continuous operation.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe difficulties are worsening not only due to outdated technologies but also because of postponed maintenance and the lack of funding for the capital overhauls of these units,\u201d<\/em> he stated.<\/p>\n

Regarding floating generation through power barges, the minister explained that of the eight units previously operating in the country, only two remain, jointly supplying about 70 MW.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Guantanamo.- Cuba\u2019s Minister of Energy and Mines, Vicente de la O Levy, briefed the press on the country\u2019s complex energy situation in recent days. He explained that power outages worsened this week due to a combination of factors: the shutdown of Felton 1, a malfunction at the Mariel engine site, the trip of Nuevitas 5, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13979,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cuba","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13978","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=13978"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13980,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13978\/revisions\/13980"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}