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The blackouts began in February 2024 with power outages that affected nearly half of the country. In March, further blackouts caused widespread protests. On 5–6 October, a third of the country experienced outages. [2] From 18 to 22 October 2024, a total nationwide blackout occurred due to the failure of the Antonio Guiteras Power Plant.
HAVANA (Reuters) -Cuba's government said late on Saturday it had restored power to nearly one-fifth of the island's people after the national grid collapsed twice in 24 hours, plunging millions of ...
Cuba’s electrical grid shut down on Friday, plunging the whole country into a blackout after one of the island’s major power plants failed, according to its energy ministry.. In a statement on ...
Due to the fuel shortages, there are widespread rolling blackouts in major Cuban cities. Cuba also relies on food imports, receiving $7 billion (United States Dollar) per year, but due to the weak purchasing power of the Cuban peso, purchases almost all imports with foreign currency reserves. These reserves are also used to purchase fuel, which ...
The blackout, which occurred shortly after 2 a.m., affected the entire nation, the company said on X. As of Wednesday morning, power began to be restored gradually in some parts of the country, including Havana. Cuba’s Minister of Energy and Mines Vicente de la O said later in a televised address that service would be fully restored by Thursday.
The blackout was considered to be Cuba’s worst since Hurricane Ian hit the island as a Category 3 storm in 2022 and damaged power installations. It took days for the government to fix them. The Cuban government announced emergency measures to slash electricity demand, including suspending school and university classes, shutting down some ...
The recent spike comes following months of hours-long blackouts across Cuba, as decrepit oil-fired power plants, many decades old, fail repeatedly, and the bankrupt Communist-run government ...
Millions of Cubans were left without power, prompting the government Friday to implement emergency measures to slash demand, including suspending classes, shutting down some state-owned workplaces and canceling non-essential services. Various calls by The Associated Press seeking to clarify the extent of the blackout on Friday weren’t answered.