Millions without power as Cuba hit by another nationwide blackout
Al Jazeera
Authorities say Antonio Guiteras power plant shut down overnight, prompting collapse of national power grid.
Cuba’s national power grid has collapsed again, leaving millions of people across the Caribbean island without electricity in the latest such failure in recent months.
Authorities said the Antonio Guiteras power plant in Matanzas, the country’s top electricity producer, shut down about 2am (07:00 GMT) on Wednesday, prompting the grid collapse.
The Ministry of Energy and Mines said in a post on social media that it was working to restore power.
Cuba’s oil-fired power plants, obsolete and struggling to operate, reached a full crisis this year as oil imports from Venezuela, Russia and Mexico dwindled.
The system failure on Wednesday morning left the capital, Havana, almost completely in the dark, the Reuters news agency reported, quoting a witness.
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