Energy
Cuba Struggles to Restore Power as Islandwide Blackout Persists
A motorcycle lights a street under pouring rain during a nationwide blackout caused by a grid failure in Havana on Oct. 19.
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Cuba was struggling to restore electricity nationwide on Saturday, more than 24 hours after the failure of one of its largest power plants knocked the entire grid off-line.
Writing Saturday on X, the Ministry of Energy and Mines said power should be gradually restored throughout the day but said a substation in western Cuba had gone down again and warned that sporadic blackouts were likely to occur because of the “technical complexity of the restoration process.”