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The next day, a deficit of 1.045 gigawatts in the country's power output caused about a third of its population to go without power. [2] On 17 October 2024, a blackout left roughly half of Cuba without electricity, [12] prompting the government of Cuba to announce energy-saving measures. [13]
While demand for electricity has gone up, the supply of oil has been greatly limited. Cuba’s ally and main oil supplier, Venezuela, has decreased the amount of shipments it sends to the island.
Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel said "there will be no rest" until power is restored. Cuba's power grid fails, plunging country into darkness Skip to main content
Reports of blackouts elsewhere in Cuba on social media suggested the entire island of around 10 million people was without power, though the government had yet to confirm the extent of the outage.
Marrero sought to placate people’s concerns about the outage, citing an expected influx of fuel supply from Cuba's state-owned oil company. Even in a country accustomed to frequent outages amid a deepening economic crisis, the size of Thursday night’s blackout left millions of Cubans on edge. Residents shut their doors and windows they ...
“Many of Cuba’s power plants are outdated and inefficient.”
The whole country had only 252 megawatts of solar power at the end of 2022. Kavulich said even China has its limits. The view of China's private sector, he said, is that Cuba “seems to make no effort whatsoever to pay money that it owes.” “The Cuban utility is the only buyer and it’s a risky investment,” said Whittle.
The impact of the blackout goes beyond lighting, as services like water supply also depend on electricity to run pumps. The blackout was considered to be Cuba's worst in two years, after a Category 3 hurricane damaged power installations and it took days for the government to fix them.