Breakdown takes Antonio Guiteras power plant out of service

The Antonio Guiteras thermoelectric plant left Cuba’s National Electric System because of a leak in the unit’s economizer. The forecast for the evening of Wednesday, October 14, was a generation shortfall of 1,914 MW during peak hours.

During the morning, available capacity stood at 1,026 MW against demand of 2,298 MW, with a shortfall already affecting 1,286 MW. For daytime hours, the Electric Union estimated that the deficit could reach 1,400 MW.

The report also says generation shortages caused service disruptions throughout Tuesday and that outages continued into the early morning. The largest shortfall that day reached 1,811 MW.