Cuba's Minister of Energy and Mines, Vicente de la O Levy, informed on Wednesday about the reestablishment of electricity generation after the total disconnection of the National Electroenergy System (SEN) that occurred in the early hours of the morning, and assured that generation islands have already been activated in several provinces to gradually increase the number of energized circuits. teleSUR
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00:00Cuban Ministry of Energy and Mines reported they are working since early Wednesday morning
00:05on restoring the national power grid after a failure led to a nationwide power outage.
00:10Cuba's national electric company specified that the power grid was fully disconnected
00:16at 2.08 a.m. local time due to the unexpected shutdown of the Antonio Guitera's thermoelectric
00:22power plant. Reporting on the progress of recovery efforts, the company unveiled that
00:27in the capital, Havana, 12 hospitals and 21 circuits already have service. In this regard,
00:34the Ministry of Energy and Mines informed subsystems are already in place and working
00:38throughout the country with the national system gradually being restored. The entity explained
00:44that this time conditions are more favorable than in previous incidents since recovery efforts
00:50are not being affected by meteorological events.
00:59And in this context, the Cuban Minister of Labor and Social Security, Marta Elena Feito,
01:05informed that labor and teaching activities in the country are suspended due to the electric
01:10service failures, stressing that no worker salaries will be affected. Feito also pointed
01:15out that the decision will be in place while the emergency lasts and that all vital services
01:21will be maintained.