News related to the advances in the use of renewable energy sources (RES) for electricity generation in Cuba were reported at the Industry, Construction and Energy Commission of the National Assembly of People's Power, which meets this week at the Convention Palace in Havana.
As part of the Program for the construction of photovoltaic solar parks, which closed 2023 with an installed capacity of 286 megawatts (MW), it was detailed that in 2024 three donated by the Government of China were concluded, which already provide service, with 12 MW.
It was also highlighted the existence of a macro program to install 2012 MW in 92 new facilities, of 21.87 MW each, in various parts of the country, which will generate 3,400 gigawatt hours (GWH) per year, which translates into savings of 890,000 tons of fossil fuel.
The Minister of Energy and Mines, Vicente de la O Levy, alluded to the autonomy and flexibility of each territory to advance in their parks, and pointed out that 71 containers arrived with the necessary resources for them, while another 186 are in the navigation process and 708 are being shipped, which is impacted by the rise in prices of the container shipping companies and the banking obstacles generated by the blockade.
The directors of the Electric Company are mainly responsible for controlling the investment process in each territory. A working group made up of project companies of the National Electrical Union, the Ministries of Construction and the Revolutionary Armed Forces, finalizes the executive projects.
In addition, by the end of 2024, supplies will arrive to synchronize, in the first quarter of 2025, nine pending parks of a 100 MW project.
Efforts are also directed to 22 parks of a Chinese donation of 120 MW, of which 35 will arrive this year.
Regarding the electrification of isolated houses, it was stated that 4,256 systems currently have partial failures and 1,150 total failures.
Regarding the corporate system, it was pointed out that it is carrying out programs for the development, maintenance and sustainability of the FRE, such as the change of the energy matrix in the hydraulic resources sector, with pumping from solar energy, which will benefit nearly 400,000 inhabitants.
