Cuba regains electricity after major power outage left millions in the dark [Video]

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CUBA’S GOVERNMENT SAID that some electricity was restored on the island today after one of the country’s major power plants failed and left millions without electricity in an outage that started two days earlier.

Energy minister Vicente de la O Levy said the country had 500 megawatts of energy in its electrical grid early on Saturday. He posted on X that “several substations in the west now have electricity”.

Mr O Levy also said two thermoelectric power plants had resumed operations and two more will follow “in the next few hours”.

In addition to the Antonio Guiteras plant, whose failure on Friday affected the entire national system, Cuba has several others and it was not immediately clear whether or not they remained functional.

There is no official estimate for when the blackout will be ended. Even in a country that is used to outages amid a deepening economic crisis, Friday’s …