Overview
- - The outage was triggered by a boiler leak that forced the Antonio Guiteras thermal plant offline, disconnecting the national grid across 10 provinces from Camagüey to Pinar del Río.
- - Roughly six million people lost power, including much of Havana, as communications and some broadcast services were also disrupted.
- - Cuba’s Energy and Mines Ministry said the system was reestablished early Friday local time, with authorities continuing staged reconnection procedures.
- - By later Thursday, officials reported power back for about 80% of Havana, though many neighborhoods still faced cuts due to a generation deficit.
- - Recovery remains constrained by scarce fuel that has idled distributed diesel and fuel‑oil units and even kept some plants out of service after Venezuelan shipments stopped under U.S. pressure.