Cuban officials say they expect to soon restart a large thermoelectric plant after it shut down earlier in the week and sparked a massive blackout
HAVANA — Cuban officials said they expect to restart a large thermoelectric plant on Saturday after it shut down earlier in the week, sparking a massive blackout.
Felix Estrada Rodríguez, a top engineer at Cuba’s Electric Union, told state-owned Canal Caribe that the Antonio Guiteras plant should be operating by Saturday afternoon.
Crews have repaired a broken boiler at the plant that caused the outage on Wednesday, leaving millions without power in the island’s western region.
Estrada Rodríguez said it was a slow process that had to be done safely.
“It is a confined space with a high temperature,” he said.
Cuba’s Electric Union said in a statement Saturday that only 1,000 megawatt