Cash-strapped Cuba on Wednesday was struggling to revive its power grid, after fixing a failure at the country’s largest power plant, which had caused yet another nationwide blackout.
Roman Perez Castaneda, the deputy technical director of the Guiteras thermal power plant in central Cuba, said the problem had been resolved, but most of the country was still in the dark.
Perez Castaneda, quoted in government media, said the Guiteras plant could resume power generation at 8pm local time on Thursday.
According to authorities, 22 per cent of the population, particularly hospitals, were able to get power from sources independent of the national grid, while the rest had none.
The blackout, the third in less than two months, dealt another blow to the communist-run island of 10 million people, which is reeling from the effects of two hurricanes, repeated power outages and a severe economic crisis.
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