The Cuban Ministry of Energy and Mines confirmed Monday that the fault that caused the interruption in half of the country was due to a fire in a rural area, while the recovery of the electric service continues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to information released by the central state administration agency, a fire in a sugarcane field caused faults in the 220-kilowatt network in the area between the towns of Sancti Sp\u00edritus and Nuevitas, which caused the system to fail in the central-eastern region of the island.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On social networks, provincial companies in Camag\u00fcey, Granma and Las Tunas confirmed the progressive reestablishment of the service, whose recovery work is estimated to take about four to five hours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Ministry also reported the deployment of generators in several territories for distributed electricity generation to contribute to the balance of the national system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In September last year, several factors caused a total blackout on the island, which since mid-2022 has been facing difficulties with electricity generation due to maintenance delays caused by the COVID-19 pandemic crisis and the intensification of the U.S. blockade, which affects access to spare parts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Ministry of Energy and Mines devised a strategy to repair the generating units for the summer period and the system received the support of floating plants which arrived in different parts of the country as a result of an agreement with Turkey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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