Cuba Advances in Power
Service Recovery
HAVANA - Cuba advanced
today in recovery work
of electric service in
the zones hit by
hurricanes Gustav and
Ike, by adding 250
thousand persons to the
recovered areas in the
last week.
The Electric Union (EU)
explained this was
accomplished by using
emergency electric
generator groups working
as microsystems, with an
additional cost in fuel
input of 46 million
dollars.
Such units were not
conceived to work
continuously for a long
time but do so now to
alleviate the damage
suffered by the power
net and quicken the
recovery of the service
to the population, says
daily Granma today.
A total of 100 of those
generating units
currently operate in the
provinces of Pinar del
Rio, Las Tunas, Camagüey
and Holguín, including
the special municipality
of the Isle of Youth,
affirmed EU engineer
Ricardo Gonzalez.
Even though there is an
intensive work of the
enterprise´s brigades
and from other
organizations, there are
still 80 thousand houses
and work centres
affected by the lack of
power due to the severe
damages left by the
hurricanes.
This includes far-away
areas to which the
revolution brought
electrical power after
1959, as 98 percent of
the Cuban territory is
electrified. |
