2mo ago

Electric grid failure in Cuba leaves millions without power for 4th time in 6 months

www.pbs.org

The massive blackout is the fourth in the last six months as a severe economic crisis plagues the Caribbean country. The Ministry of Energy and Mines, in a statement on social media, attributed the latest outage to a failure at a substation in the suburbs of Havana, the capital.

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A single substation outage causes a "massive" blackout in the capital? It’s not even the first time either.
Seems more like a mismanagement issue.
- Embargo, not blockade. For a little more than 60 years, not 70. Cuba's trading partners include Venezuela, China, Spain, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, and the Netherlands, from whom they absolutely can import things like transformers.
- Heavily suggests they have no spare capacity in the system. All the redundancies are gone, everything is now a single-point failure. Anytime something breaks or needs to go offline for maintenance, there will simply be an outage instead of rerouting through the backup system.