Cuba plunged into darkness again as power grid collapses

Cuba’s power grid failed on Sunday, causing another nationwide blackout, a state utility said in a social media post. As the lights suddenly turned off across Havana, residents who were sat outside to get some respite from the summer heat audibly groaned en masse. Cuba has been suffering rolling power cuts due to agein

The outage follows three nationwide blackouts in July and comes as a US-imposed oil blockade further strains the island's aging energy infrastructure.

Cuba's electricity grid collapsed late on Sunday, the state-owned grid ​operator said, plunging the island of ‌about 10 million people into darkness as blackouts become more frequent.

Outage follows three nationwide blackouts in July ‌and comes as a ​US-imposed oil ‌blockade ⁠cripples ⁠island's already aging energy ‌infrastructure

Cuba's national electricity grid collapses on Sunday  Reuters

Cuba's ​national ‌electricity grid ​collapsed ​late ⁠on ​Sunday, ​the state-owned ​national ​electric utility said ‌in ⁠an ​post ​on ⁠social ​media ​website ⁠X.

Cuba is reeling from its worst economic crisis in decades – one made worse by a US fuel blockade.