The Ciego de Ávila Electric Company reports that yesterday, Monday, the deficit in generation availability reached a maximum of 80 megawatts (MW) during peak hours.

The average of affectation by circuits was 8 hours and 16 minutes, while the maximum demand in the territory of Ciego de Ávila occurred at 7:00 past meridian with 120 MW. For the present day, a deficit of 95 MW is estimated in the province.

The maximum impact on Monday night was 1,409 MW at 7:20 p.m., coinciding with peak hour. A maximum affectation of 1,350 MW is estimated for today due to a deficit in generation capacity during daytime hours.

Units 6, 7 and 8 of the Máximo Gómez Thermoelectric Power Plant (CTE) (Mariel, Artemisa), CTE unit Otto Parellada (Tallapiedra, Old Havana), unit 4 of CTE Carlos Manuel de Céspedes (Cienfuegos), unit 4 of the CTE Diez de Octubre (Nuevitas, Camagüey), unit 2 of the CTE Lidio Ramón Pérez (Felton, Holguín) and unit 5 of the CTE Antonio Maceo (Renté, Santiago de Cuba).

Unit 2 of CTE Ernesto Guevara (Santa Cruz del Norte, Mayabeque), unit 5 of CTE Nuevitas, unit 1 of CTE Felton and unit 3 of CTE Renté are under maintenance.

The engineer Lázaro Guerra Hernández, technical director of the Electric Union of Cuba, said, in the Buenos Días magazine, that unit 1 of the CTE Felton will carry out a hydraulic test today, but it will not be synchronized during the course of the present day.

The technological limitations of the operating blocks of thermal generation (345 MW) are maintained.

In distributed generation, 1,024 MW are unavailable due to breakdown and 743 MW are undergoing maintenance. For peak hours, the entry of 68 MW in diesel engines is estimated.

With this forecast, an availability of 1,783 MW and a maximum demand of 3,200 MW are estimated for the peak hour, for a deficit of 1,417 MW, so if the forecast conditions continue, an affectation of 1,487 MW is forecast for this hour.