Cuba opens Solar Park in the hope of Black -Outs to avert
On Friday, Cuba unveiled a new solar energy park in the capital Havana, part of an ambitious project to illuminate the ever -desperate struggle of the communist island with Power Blackouts.
The terrible state of the infrastructure of the current generation of Cuba, largely dependent on oil from Venezuela, has had 10 million people in some regions with almost daily disruptions in some regions.
In some provinces, access to electricity is limited to a few hours a day.
The eight outdated thermo -electric plants from Cuba, most of them online since the 1980s and 90s, suffer frequent demolition.
Under an American tradeembargo since the 1960s and fighting its worse economic crisis in decades, the country also uses floating electric plants that are rented from Turkish companies, and generators fed by crude oil that Cuba has trouble paying for.
The Havana government has said that at the end of the year it wants to install at least 55 solar parks to generate 1,200 megawatt electricity – which increases the renewable energy generation of approximately five to 12 percent.
The first such park, “The product of cooperation with the sisteration of #china,” according to the presidency, went online on Friday.
Another will follow next week.
“It’s a beauty,” added President Miguel Diaz-Canel’s office in a post on X accompanied by images of rows in rows of shiny solar panels.
The park has a capacity of 21.8 megawatts that “will gradually reduce the annoying blackouts during daylight hours” in the populated municipality of Havana, said State News Portal Cubadebate about the project.
Earlier this month, the government was forced to close for two days and close companies to save energy after the electricity supply fell to half of the demand.
By 2030, the country wants to generate more than a third of its electricity from solar parks and other renewable sources.
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