Havana solar off-grid energy storage power station

Will Cuba get more solar energy by 2030?

By 2030, the country aims to generate more than a third of its electricity from solar parks and other renewable sources. Cuba on Friday unveiled a new solar energy park in the capital Havana, part of an ambitious project to alleviate the communist island's increasingly desperate struggle with power blackouts.

What's going on with Cuba's power supply?

The dire state of Cuba's power generation infrastructure, largely dependent on oil from Venezuela, has seen the country of 10 million people struggle with near daily outages in some regions in recent months. In some provinces, electricity access is limited to a few hours a day.

How many hours a day can you get electricity in Cuba?

In some provinces, electricity access is limited to a few hours a day. Cuba's eight outdated thermoelectric plants, most of them online since the 1980s and '90s, suffer frequent breakdowns.

Why is Cuba struggling to pay for electricity?

Under a US trade embargo since the 1960s and battling its worse economic crisis in decades, the country also uses floating electric plants rented from Turkish companies, and generators fueled by crude oil Cuba is struggling to pay for.