‘Can’t live like this’: Cuba hit by second nationwide blackout in a week
Al Jazeera
Power grid collapses for a third time in March as the Cuban government battles a US-imposed oil blockade.
Cuba has been plunged into darkness for the second time in less than a week after its national power network failed again, strained by an energy blockade imposed by the United States.
The Cuban Electric Union, which reports to the Ministry of Energy and Mines, announced a total blackout across the island on Saturday without initially giving a cause for the outage.
The union later said the blackout was caused by an unexpected failure of a generating unit at the Nuevitas thermoelectric plant in Camaguey province.
“From that moment, a cascading effect occurred in the machines that were online,” said a report from the Energy Ministry, which activated “micro-islands” of generating units to provide power to vital centres, hospitals and water systems.
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