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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”

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september 6, 2024 13:09:08

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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.

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Cuba estimates the generation capacity will surpass the demand by the end the year

 

Cuba estimates the generation capacity will surpass the demand by the end the year
The solution and improvement will be gradual, based on the resources that are being imported to manufacture the spare parts required by our thermoelectric power plants and generators

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In the Cuban electricity industry not a minute has been lost, there is no discouragement in any of the workers. Photo: Cuban News Agency (ACN in Spanish)
The National Electric System (SEN in Spanish) is expected to recover 489 megawatts (MW) currently unavailable and 531 MW through other investments, as part of the gradual recovery of the electric system, an essential strategy in view of the difficult conditions the sector is currently facing, which affect the stability of the electric service to the population and the economy.
Liván Arronte Cruz, Minister of Energy and Mines recalled on Wednesday’s Round Table that SEN continues to face complex circumstances, since the thermal power plants (CTE in Spanish) Máximo Gómez, in Mariel, and Lidio Ramón Pérez, in Felton, Holguín, suffered breakdowns that made it impossible to comply with the commitment to guarantee the generation for these summer months thus losing the minimum operating reserve in the system to cover the demand.
“As it happens with every extraordinary event, the failures have been investigated by multidisciplinary teams, integrated by the competent authorities and it has been demonstrated that there was no negligence or intentionality,” he pointed out.
In the case of the Mariel thermoelectric plant, the breakdown is in unit 7, where a fire occurred, which also damaged systems and disabled unit 6, which had been in operation just for a few months, he pointed out.
The replacement for the damaged spare parts and equipment have a delivery window of more than 26 weeks, which is why it has not yet been possible to repair this unit.
At Felton, work was carried out for 120 days, 24 hours a day. Although the fire that took place there was not of great magnitude, it affected technological systems, especially the main columns of that unit, and for that reason the repair will require practically dismantling the boiler, he said. Continue reading Cuba estimates the generation capacity will surpass the demand by the end the year →

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First 500 Cuban-made ventilators coming soon

First 500 Cuban-made ventilators coming soon
By October, the national health system should have on hand the first ventilators built In Cuba

Orfilio Peláezjuly 16, 2020 10:07:16
By October, the national health system should have on hand the first 500 ventilators built In Cuba, reported Dr. Mitchell Valdés Sosa, director of the Cuban Neuroscience Center (CNEURO), affiliated with the BioCubaFarma enterprise group.

This figure includes 250 machines described as invasive, that is, the patient must be physically connected via intubation. These are used primarily in intensive care units to aid patients in serious and critical condition. The first lot will also include the same number of non-invasive ventilators, which do not require intubation and are used with patients in less serious condition.

According to Doctor Valdés Sosa, the first of the devices mentioned is the result of a joint effort by CNEURO specialists, the National Electro-medicine Center and the Grito de Baire enterprise affiliated with Military Industry Union, the latter responsible for development of mechanical components, while the non-invasive ventilator was produced by CNEURO in collaboration with the Molecular Immunology Center.

Dr. Valdés emphasized that construction of both models was based on open codes, made available online by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the London University College, but the software used and the industrial design are the work of Cuban experts.

He also highlighted the leading role played by the Center for State Control of Drugs, Equipment and Medical Devices (Cecmed) in trict compliance with all regulatory requirements established for the production of such equipment.

Dr. Valdés recalled that last April the Cuban government was denied purchases of ventilators from the Swiss companies IMT Medical AG and Acutronis, after they were bought by the U.S. company Vyaire Medical Inc, which ended commercial relations with our country citing the blockade.

“This was when the country’s leadership commissioned a multi-institutional team to develop a prototype ventilator in record time, so no Cuban patient with COVID-19 would be left without such an important medical device, capable of guaranteeing assisted respiration,” he said.