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Cuban Technology

Cuba will have its first minute of electricity generation without imported fuel

In 2025, Cuba will have its first minute of electricity generation without imported fuel

Vicente de la O Levy, Minister of Energy and Mines, said in the television program Mesa Redonda, that “with the growth of renewable energy sources, the growth of Energás, and the repairs we are making in the thermal units, by 2025, we will have at least one minute of generation without consuming imported fuel”

Author:  | internet@granma.cu

september 6, 2024 13:09:08

Photo: Dunia Álvarez

Eliminating dependence on imported fossil fuels for electricity generation in the country, as well as producing 29% of energy through renewable sources, is a long-awaited goal.
Vicente de la O Levy, head of Energy and Mines, expressed in the television program Mesa Redonda, that “we are convinced that, with the growth of renewable energy sources, the growth of Energás, and the repairs we are making in the thermal units, we will have, in 2025, at least one minute of generation without consuming imported fuel.”
“That will be the first minute, but we hope to continue increasing it,” he said, adding that it will not be an easy road, but full of obstacles, but it is the safe road.
Currently, explained Rosell Guerra Campaña, director of Renewable Energies of the Minem, as part of the ambitious project to install 92 photovoltaic solar parks with a total power of 2 000 mw, 30 are already under civil construction.
In Havana, Las Tunas, Pinar del Río, Mayabeque, Sancti Spíritus and Guantánamo provinces  there is at least one park under construction; in Matanzas, Ciego de Avila, Santiago de Cuba, Camagüey and Artemisa there are two; Cienfuegos and Villa Clara are in the process of structuring three; while in Holguín and Granma there are four.
Guerra Campaña said that it is estimated that ten of these parks will be installed this year, equivalent to 220 megawatts. However, work is being done to prepare the land to make as much progress as possible, prior to the arrival of the panels.
To date, there are 77 photovoltaic solar parks installed in Cuba, with 286 megawatts (MW) of power, which annually replace more than 80,000 tons of fuel.

Genocide

The massacre must end

The massacre must end

“The day when future generations ask why we did not stop the holocaust, we will not have a dignified and reasonable answer,” said Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez in X

Author:  | internet@granma.cu

august 21, 2024 10:08:55

Photo: Prensa Latina

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken recently visited Tel Aviv and publicly stated that “perhaps” this is “the last chance for a ceasefire in Gaza”.
A few kilometers away from the meeting with the authorities of the Jewish country, a Dantesque spectacle, very similar to that left by the U.S. atomic bombs dropped on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, is the testimony of the Palestinian identity subjected to extermination in the Gaza Strip.
Logic indicates that a solution to this conflict is a long way off as long as a foreign actor – the U.S. – finances and supports Benjamin Netanyahu’s Zionist regime within the framework of the UN and other international institutions.
It must be made clear to Joe Biden and Blinken – once again sent to Israel as a kind of “fire-fighter” in the face of international condemnation – that they hold the solution in their hands: force Israel to stop the genocide in Palestine, or the White House will suspend the delivery of the most advanced weapons and the financial support of more than U.S. $4 billion a year.
In addition, the Biden administration, or the next one, can lift the veto in the UN Security Council when it comes to peace in Palestine and the cessation of Israeli aggression.
Coinciding with Blinken’s visit to Israel, the UN, in the voice of its Secretary-General António Guterres, called for “an end to impunity for attacks on humanitarian workers,” 280 of whom from 33 countries were killed last year alone.
And lest we forget, the number of Palestinians killed by Zionist shrapnel exceeds 40,000, not counting the estimated 10,000 more buried under the rubble of what was once Gaza City.
It is not the time for the visits of the Yankee representative or his worthless warnings, nor for the resolutions and appeals of the international institutions, which are neither heard nor followed by those guilty of genocide.
There is no direct action to stop the crime.

Cuban Sovereignty

Categorical rejection of unfounded allegations of election meddling in the USA

Categorical rejection of unfounded allegations of election meddling in the USA

Articles in the Miami Herald newspaper and others in the McClatchy press organization, to which this newspaper belongs, began a new slanderous campaign against Cuba at the end of July

Author:  | informacion@granmai.cu

august 26, 2024 15:08:33

 

Articles in the Miami Herald newspaper and others in the McClatchy press organization, to which this newspaper belongs, began a new slanderous campaign against Cuba at the end of July, citing anonymous intelligence sources to support the accusation, a common practice that this journalistic organization and its editors are accustomed to when lies are the basis of the report.
The accusation is that Cuba is making efforts to influence local electoral campaigns in the state of Florida in the United States.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs categorically denies the accusation. It also deplores the failure of the U.S. government, its State Department and its intelligence services to disqualify the direct reference to alleged government agencies on whose authority these slanderous articles appear to be based.
The U.S. government cannot cite any evidence or indication, because it does not exist, that Cuba has interfered or is proposing to interfere in its electoral processes, or that it is favoring any politician in the state of Florida or any other state in this country. Any reference to that is absolutely false.
If it were not a completely unfounded accusation on such a serious issue, the statement would be astonishing because it could be interpreted as the U.S. government having done a 180-degree turn and for the first time in more than a century finding it inappropriate to interfere in the electoral processes of other countries.  However, it is not clear from any of the articles whether this administration intends to abandon a practice as illegitimate as it is unacceptable that has long accompanied U.S. foreign policy.
Havana, August 26, 2024.

Venezuelan Elections

Constitution and democracy have triumphed in Venezuela

Constitution and democracy have triumphed in Venezuela

Venezuelan Foreign Minister Yván Gil denounced the U.S. State Department for “insisting on its despicable position of interfering in matters that do not concern it”

Author:  | internet@granma.cu

august 30, 2024 12:08:16

Caracas, Venezuela.- Venezuelan Foreign Minister Yván Gil denounced the U.S. State Department for “insisting on its despicable position of interfering in matters that do not concern it.”
The spokesman of this government, Matthew Miller, declared yesterday that “Edmundo González Urrutia obtained the majority of votes” in the presidential elections, despite the fact that the Supreme Court of Justice had certified the victory of Nicolás Maduro, as announced by the National Electoral Council since the night of July 28.
“We do not owe explanations to any foreign entity, much less to the hostile empire that manages a fascist puppet that was rejected by the majority of the people, as he personifies the hatred and aggression of its 930 sanctions, sabotages to our economy, assassination attempts and violent aggressions against our citizens”, wrote the Foreign Minister of the South American nation on Telegram.
In addition, he recalled that the former candidate of the ultra-right wing “refuses to recognize the public powers, before the rejection of an entire country”, since he did not attend the summons issued to him by the Supreme Court of Justice and, more recently, by the Public Ministry.
Another ally of the White House is playing along: the European Council, through the voice of its High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Josep Borrell, has denied the Bolivarian leader as legitimate president, while at the same time questioning Venezuelan democracy.
In the face of such accusations, Yván Gil pointed out that “in Bolivar’s homeland, where we expelled the European empires with blood and fire, we don’t care what he says, we know that his knees are no longer able to accept Washington’s orders, but Venezuela respects itself, here the Constitution and democracy have triumphed.