Cuba had restored power to some neighborhoods of the capital Havana by early on Thursday, according to Reuters witnesses and official reports, but vast swaths of the Caribbean island nation still remained in the dark following the passage of Hurricane Ian.
Much of the island of 11 million people was entering its third day without power on Thursday after the brawling storm made landfall, knocking out high tension wires, flattening homes and obliterating agricultural fields.Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.comOfficials with the state power generator said they were making progress but still in the early stages of a "complex" recovery.
Cuba's grid relies on decrepit, Soviet-era oil-fired generation plants that fail repeatedly, further complicating recovery. The country has also struggled to obtain fuel for those plants, as costs have risen with the Ukraine conflict and amid harsh sanctions from the United States. "During the night, early morning, and first hours of the morning, we should already have results," Angulo said late on Wednesday. "As soon as the first {plants} are incorporated, the rest of the units will be incorporated into the system in a much more accelerated way."
Even before Hurricane Ian hit, Cubans were accustomed to daily power outages, sometimes of eight hours or more, but the prospect of a prolonged blackout would be a major blow to the crisis-racked nation, where food, fuel and medicine are in short supply.
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