{"id":18033,"date":"2026-11-09T14:30:53","date_gmt":"2026-11-09T19:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/?p=18033"},"modified":"2026-11-09T14:30:53","modified_gmt":"2026-11-09T19:30:53","slug":"guantanamo-highlights-progress-in-renewable-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/guantanamo-highlights-progress-in-renewable-energy\/","title":{"rendered":"Guant\u00e1namo Highlights Progress in Renewable Energy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-16303 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/guantanamo-panel-solar-1024x776.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"485\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/guantanamo-panel-solar-1024x776.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/guantanamo-panel-solar-300x227.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/guantanamo-panel-solar-768x582.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/guantanamo-panel-solar-1536x1165.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/guantanamo-panel-solar-2048x1553.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>Guantanamo.- Yoel P\u00e9rez Garc\u00eda, First Secretary of the Communist Party in Guant\u00e1namo 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.<\/p>\n<p>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\u2019s thermoelectric power plants.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>The province\u2019s top political leader described the young professionals\u2019 engagement with local residents as highly rewarding and constructive. The group met with people in neighborhoods and communities in Im\u00edas and the provincial capital, where they also heard residents\u2019 views on the social and economic benefits of Community Charging and Service Centers, as well as on efforts to repair or replace damaged transformers.<\/p>\n<p>Leonardo Fern\u00e1ndez Chivas, Cuba\u2019s coordinator of the Youth Network for the Promotion of the Energy Transition, welcomed Guant\u00e1namo\u2019s progress in adopting renewable energy sources, saying it places the province among the country\u2019s leaders. Report by Ventura Figueras Lores.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guantanamo.- Yoel P\u00e9rez Garc\u00eda, First Secretary of the Communist Party in Guant\u00e1namo 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13997,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18033","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\/18033","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=18033"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18034,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18033\/revisions\/18034"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}