Matanzas will install sectionalizers and add neighborhoods to blackout rotations

Electric-sector authorities in Matanzas plan to install 12 sectionalizers to reorganize energy distribution. The work will separate circuits serving hospitals from nearby residential areas and allow more neighborhoods to enter the blackout schedule. Manzano is among the places that will become subject to rotation. Part of the energy currently kept on protected circuits can then be assigned elsewhere.

Alejandro Rodríguez Azpeitía, director of the Provincial Electric Company, said installing the equipment would release 19 megawatts. That capacity, now tied to protected circuits, would join distribution among other zones. The plan aims to distribute electricity more evenly and reduce the time neighborhoods lack service. Twelve sectionalizers are planned.

Separating hospital lines from adjacent residential areas is a central objective. According to the announcement, health facilities would stop sharing those circuits with nearby neighborhoods, which would then enter rotation schedules. The plan combines isolation of health institutions with redistribution of energy currently reserved for those lines.

Adding Manzano shows that the system will reach residential areas previously outside the rotation associated with protected circuits. For those neighborhoods, the change means joining scheduled outages while released energy is distributed among more areas. It changes both separation of hospital lines and organization of residential blackouts.

The province also has 162 damaged transformers, according to released information. Installing sectionalizers concerns circuit distribution and energy allocation while that equipment remains affected. The announcement does not change the transformer count but places the plan in a provincial setting where authorities seek to manage available electricity differently and reduce hours without service.