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"The United States obviously is not to blame for today's blackout on the island, or the overall energy situation in Cuba." Cuban officials have said even if the immediate grid collapse is resolved ...
Cuba’s electrical grid shut down on Friday, putting the country into a blackout after the failure of one of the island’s major power plants, according to its energy ministry.
The country's energy and mines ministry said the Antonio Guiteras power plant in Matanzas, the island's top electricity producer, had shut down at around 2 a.m., prompting the grid collapse. Cuba ...
Power outages have been chronic in Cuba for years and have worsened in recent months. But the situation was so critical in the past three days that the government took measures to keep the lights on.
The next day, a deficit of 1.045 gigawatts in the country's power output caused about a third of its population to go without power. [2] On 17 October 2024, a blackout left roughly half of Cuba without electricity, [12] prompting the government of Cuba to announce energy-saving measures. [13]
On Friday, the failure of the Antonio Guiteras power plant in Matanzas, a province in western Cuba, triggered the island-wide blackout. Over the weekend the outages continued as the state electric ...
On 12 January 2021, then-U.S. President Donald Trump added Cuba to the State Sponsors of Terrorism list, implementing a new series of economic sanctions on the country. [7] The government of Cuba had hoped that Joe Biden would remove Cuba from the list. However, Biden has entirely avoided the issue and, according to Cuban governmental sources ...
HAVANA/HOUSTON (Reuters) -Cuba's national electrical grid shut down on Friday after one of the island's major power plants failed, Cuba's energy ministry said, plunging the entire country into a ...