Power plants purchased from Cuba are insufficient to solve energy crisis

Analyst says that they are expensive, old-fashioned and short-lived

Last year, Cuba faced its own energy crisis and the solution they found was to implement rationing across-the-board (File photo)

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Energy
Although the Venezuelan government recently appointed Cuban Minister Ramiro Valdés as head of a commission to help the Venezuelan government to solve the energy crisis, the presence of Cubans in the electrical industry is not new.

The Energy Revolution Mission, a government program to replace millions of incandescent light bulbs for energy-saving light bulbs and establish power generation plants, is similar to programs implemented in Cuba.

The first agreements between Venezuela and Cuba to ensure the supply of energy-saving light bulbs and small power plants manufactured in Cuba were signed in 2007.

Miguel Lara, a former general manager of the Office of Operations of Interconnected Systems (Opsis), says that these plants "were used in Venezuela 50 years ago, before power utility Cadafe moved to build the national electricity grid."

Lara said that the Cuban power plants "are short-lived and have high operating costs because they burn a lot of gas oil and they are not part of the national interconnected system."

Mariela León
EL UNIVERSAL

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