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Cuban authorities reported that Power supply restored to a fifth of the country’s population following a general power outage that has affected the island since last Friday.

Rest of the country continues to be without power supply following the collapse of the National Electricity System (SEN) and despite failed attempts to restore it on Saturday. In addition, a new relapse occurred early Saturday morning, leaving the island without electricity again.

However, also on Saturday evening, the Ministry of Energy and Mines posted on its X account that “At about 10:15 p.m., another outage of the western subsystem occurred.” “The work to restore it continues,” he noted.

The power outage began shortly before noon Friday. due to the shutdown of the Antonio Guiteras de Matanzas Thermal Power Plant, one of the largest in the country. Authorities canceled classes and almost all economic activity. Businesses are working with essential employees.

Director of the National Electrotechnical Union (UNE), dependent on the Ministry of Energy and Mining of Cuba, Lázaro Guerra, reported on the process of restoring supplies. To synchronize each of the thermal units, microsystems or “islands” were launched with distributed generating groups of territories that will supply energy to the thermal power plant.

“People’s food is spoiling. To this we must add the LPG crisis, which has forced families to cook with charcoal,” said freelance journalist José Luis Tan Estrada.

The electricity situation may worsen in the coming hours Due to the arrival of Hurricane Oscar, prompting the Forecast Center of the Cuban Institute of Meteorology to issue an early warning. Wind speeds of up to 140 kilometers per hour are expected.

The hurricane is located north of the Dominican Republic and is moving close to the west, so may cause rain and wind over the territory of the eastern region and storm surges on the northern coast from Guantanamo to Las Tunas in the coming hours.

“The population is instructed to be attentive to information from the Institute of Meteorology and Civil Defense received through the media and official profiles on social networks, and to disciplinedly follow the instructions of local authorities and the planned rules of conduct. to avoid loss of life, the organization published.

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Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel warned of the situation. “I just spoke with the first secretaries of the PCC from Camagüey to Guantanamo. Hard work is already underway to protect people and economic resources.before the approach of Hurricane Oscar. “The energy situation is also being resolved,” Díaz-Canel wrote on the social network X.

(According to information from Europe Press)