Cuba remained on a large scale on Saturday morning without electricity, when the island fell earlier on the night of the nation, knocked up for 10 million people and raised new questions about the feasibility of its ancient generated system.
At sunrise, the island’s grid operator UNE said it was only generating a trickle of electricity – about 225 MW, or less than 10% of the total demand, is sufficient to cover some important services such as hospitals, water supply and food production centers.
Cuba is working to re -establish electrical service after second grid collapse
Officials said that they have started the process of firing the country’s decades -old generation plants, but did not give any time to restore the service.
UNE officials said Cuba’s grid failed around 8:15 pm on Friday (0015 GMT), after an aging component of a transmission line at a substation at Havana short, a chain reaction began, which completely stopped power generation in the island.
People walk on the road on March 14, 2025 during a national electric grid collapse in Havana, Cuba. (Reuters/Noris Perez)
The grid fall follows a string of nationwide blackouts later last year, which submerged Cuba’s weak power generating system into nearly dislocation, which was under stress from fuel deficiency, natural disaster and economic crisis.
Most of the cubits outside the country’s capital Havana have already been living with rolling blackouts for months, which had reached 20 hours a day in recent weeks.
Havana was still largely without electricity on Saturday morning. Light traffic navigated intersections and cellular internets with no working stoplights were weak or non-existent in some areas.
Abel Bonne interacted with friends at Havana’s Malkon Waterfront Boleward in the early hours of Saturday, taking fresh sea air without lightning.
“Now, no one knows when Shakti will return,” he said. “This was the first time this year, but it happened three times last year.”
Severe lack of food, medicine and water has made life unbearable for many cubes, and people have been running away from the island in record-breaking numbers in recent years.
Cuba has blamed its economic crises on a web of a cold war-era American trade embarragies, laws and rules that complicate the acquisition of financial transactions and essentials such as fuel and spare parts.
On Saturday morning, a grid official said Cuba was unable to update ancient transmission and generation components due to sanctions.
US President Donald Trump recently tightened sanctions on the government -run government -run government, which vowed to restore a “difficult” policy towards the US enemy for a long time.
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A bike taxi driver, Havana resident Uniyore Rayes, despite blackouts, returned to the job on Saturday morning, shocking that their food reserves could deteriorate in the heat of the day.
“We are all in the same position,” he said. “This is a lot of work.”
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