The massive blackout is the fourth in the last six months as a severe economic crisis plagues the Caribbean country. The Ministry of Energy and Mines, in a statement on social media, attributed the latest outage to a failure at a substation in the suburbs of Havana, the capital.

  • malloc@lemmy.world
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    15 hours ago

    A single substation outage causes a “massive” blackout in the capital? It’s not even the first time either.

    Seems more like a mismanagement issue.

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      They have been under a complete economic blockade for 70 years. They can’t import things like transformers

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      13 hours ago

      Heavily suggests they have no spare capacity in the system. All the redundancies are gone, everything is now a single-point failure. Anytime something breaks or needs to go offline for maintenance, there will simply be an outage instead of rerouting through the backup system.