Most of Cuba’s 11 million people remained without electricity on Wednesday, after the failure of one of the country’s main power plants Tuesday afternoon brought down the entire electrical grid.
The effects of Hurricane Ian, which battered western Cuba, especially the westernmost Pinar del Río province, on Tuesday with Category 3 winds and torrential rains, played a part, but what happened also resulted from years of mismanagement and the dilapidated state of the island’s electricity grid.
On Tuesday night, Lázaro Guerra Hernández, the company’s technical director, provided different explanations for what he called “an exceptional condition in the electrical grid causing zero electricity generation.”
