Cuba’s national electricity grid collapsed late Sunday, plunging the island into darkness for a fourth time in just over a week.
The state-owned grid operator confirmed the outage, which followed three previous nationwide blackouts in July and highlights the accelerating deterioration of the country’s energy infrastructure.
With aging power plants unable to operate at capacity, the frequency of outages has increased, disrupting daily life for the island’s 10 million residents and straining an already fragile economy.
The collapse is being driven by a severe shortage of fuel, exacerbated by a US-imposed oil blockade that has further restricted access to crude and refined products.
With aging power plants unable to operate at capacity, the frequency of outages has increased, disrupting daily life for the island’s 10 million residents and straining an already fragile economy.
While the immediate impact on global energy markets is limited, the situation underscores the broader geopolitical tensions affecting energy supply chains in the region.
The blockade has effectively cut off a critical lifeline for Cuba’s power generation, forcing the government to rely on increasingly unreliable domestic sources.