HAVANA, Cuba (AP) — Cuba’s power grid collapsed again on Saturday leaving the country without electricity for a third time in March as deepening energy and economic crises continue to strain a crumbling power grid. The Cuban Electric Union said the blackout was caused by a failure of a generating unit at the Nuevitas thermoelectric […]
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HAVANA, Cuba (AP) — Cuba’s power grid collapsed again on Saturday leaving the country without electricity for a third time in March as deepening energy and economic crises continue to strain a crumbling power grid.
The Cuban Electric Union said the blackout was caused by a failure of a generating unit at the Nuevitas thermoelectric plant in Camagüey province.
It was the second blackout in the past week and the third this month. Cuba has blamed the crisis partly on a U.S. energy blockade.
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