Cuba’s nationwide electrical system collapsed early on Wednesday morning after the nation’s largest energy plant failed, the federal government stated, the most recent of a number of such failures because the island’s grid falls into disarray amid gas shortages, pure catastrophe and financial disaster.
The nation’s power and mines ministry stated the Antonio Guiteras energy plant in Matanzas, the island’s prime electrical energy producer, had shut down at about 2am, prompting the grid collapse.
Cuba’s oil-fired energy vegetation, already out of date and struggling to maintain the lights on, reached a full disaster this 12 months as oil imports from Venezuela, Russia and Mexico dwindled, contributing to a number of nationwide blackouts within the final two months.
The system failure on Wednesday morning left the capital, Havana, virtually fully at midnight, in keeping with a Reuters witness. Before dawn, lights could possibly be seen solely in a handful of huge inns and authorities buildings on town’s skyline.
Reports on social media of blackouts elsewhere in Cuba instructed your complete island of greater than 10 million individuals was with out energy, although the federal government had but to substantiate the extent of the outage.
The power and mines ministry stated it was working to reconnect {the electrical} system.
Cuba’s grid collapsed a number of instances in October as gas provides dwindled and Hurricane Oscar struck the far-eastern finish of the island, then once more in November with the passage of Hurricane Rafael.
