On Saturday morning, Cuba remained largely without electricity after the grid of the island nation had collapsed the night before, eliminated electricity for 10 million people and raised new questions about the viability of his outdated generation system.
At sunrise, the The schedule of the island Operator Une said it only generated a stream of electricity – about 225 MW, or less than 10% of the total demand, enough to cover some vital services, such as hospitals, water supply and food production centers.
Cuba is working on repairing the electric service after collapsing the second grid
Civil servants said they had started the process of shooting the decades old generation plants in the country, but did not give a timeline for repairing the services.
Cuba’s Grid failed on Friday evening around 8:15 pm (0015 GMT) after an aging component of a transmission line on a substation in Havana short -connected, with a chain reaction that completely closed the power generation over the island, said Unne -civil servants.
People walk on the street during a collapse of a national electric grid, in Havana, Cuba, March 14, 2025. (Reuters/Norlys Perez)
The collapse of the schedule follows a series of national blackouts at the end of last year that collected the vulnerable Cuba power generation system into almost total disorder, emphasized by fuel shortages, natural disaster and economic crisis.
Most Cubans outside the capital of the country Havana I have lived for months with rolling blackouts that peaked at 20 hours a day in recent weeks.
Havana was still largely without electricity on Saturday morning. Light traffic navigated intersections without functioning traffic lights and cellular internet were weak or not existing in some areas.
Abel Bonnne talked to friends on Havana’s Malecon Waterfront Boulevard on Saturday and took the fresh sea breeze after a hidden night without strength.
“At the moment nobody knows when power will come back,” he said. “This is the first time this had happened this year, but last year it happened three times.”
Serious shortages of food, medicines and water have made life increasingly unbearable for many Cubans and people have been fleeing in record -breaking numbers in recent years.
Cuba blames his economic misery for one Cold wartime US Trade embargo, a web of laws and regulations that make financial transactions and the acquisition of essential matters such as fuel and spare parts.
A grid officer on Saturday morning said that because of the limitations, Cuba had not been able to update outdated transmission and generation components.
US President Donald Trump recently sharpened sanctions on the communist government of the island and promises to restore a “heavy” policy for the old American enemy.
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Resident of Havana Yunior Reyes, a bicycle taxi driver, was back to work on Saturday morning despite the black -out, so that his food reserves can spoil themselves in the heat of the day.
“We are all in the same situation,” he said. “It’s a lot of work.”
