Cuba pronounces a complete electrical energy blackout | EUROtoday

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The complete island of Cuba has been hit by a blackout, the state electrical energy firm introduced. This is one more blackout brought on by the oil blockade imposed by the United States to place stress on the island’s communist authorities. The energy outages have been brought on by a “complete blockage of the national electricity grid”, the Union Nacional Electrica de Cuba (UNE) stated in a press release, including that work had begun to revive electrical energy provides.

UNE introduced the entire disconnection of the nationwide power system, the SEN, with a simultaneous interruption of electrical energy all through the Caribbean nation. The discover, launched in a couple of traces on the Telegram channel of the Havana electrical energy firm, solely experiences the beginning of the restoration protocols, with out offering explanations on the causes. In the capital the interruption was sudden. “It was like turning off, turning on again and turning off again,” says a resident of the Nuevo Vedado neighborhood, whereas comparable experiences additionally come from a number of different provinces as reported by the nation’s fundamental impartial media in addition to CNN.

This is the primary whole collapse of the electrical energy system in 2026. Last March 4, a failure on the Antonio Guiteras thermoelectric energy plant in Matanzas had already triggered the community to fail in two-thirds of the nation. Restoration had been troublesome because of the lack of gasoline wanted to energy the native microsystems. The blackout comes after days of protests towards prolonged energy cuts. In Morón, within the province of Ciego de Ávila, dozens of individuals took to the streets shouting “Freedom”. Several individuals have been arrested and authorities deployed safety forces in numerous cities.