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.
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.
They have been under a complete economic blockade for 70 years. They can’t import things like transformers
Embargo, not blockade. For a little more than 60 years, not 70. Cuba’s trading partners include Venezuela, China, Spain, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, and the Netherlands, from whom they absolutely can import things like transformers.
TRANSFORMERS
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.