Electricity returns in Cuba after 24 hours of outage

The authorities in Cuba announced the return of electricity on Thursday after a new general outage that lasted 24 hours due to a malfunction in the main thermal power station on the island.
“The national electricity system has been restored,” Minister of Energy and Mines Vicente de la O Levy said on the X platform.
Shortly after, the Ministry of Energy explained that “all (electricity production) units that were in the process of restarting” were connected to the central electricity system.

Fragile situation

This new general outage, the third in less than two months, occurred on Tuesday night due to a malfunction at the Guiteras power station in Matanzas province (central), which is the largest in the country.
Island residents woke up Wednesday to power outages, schools were closed again and non-essential activities were suspended.
Cuba is in a fragile situation on the energy front, with the aging of its eight thermal power plants and the decline in oil imports from its ally, Venezuela, over the past two years.