00:00President Raul Rosendo from the Cuban Agency of News. President, the Cuban context is very
00:09complex in the generation of electricity and due to the access to fuel, international fuels
00:19and the executive order that threatens us to avoid us to get into it. Cuba has to speak
00:30on a long-term strategy to change the energetic matrix in our country, to reach the 100% of
00:40renewable sources. Is there an actualization in this matter? Which are the priorities?
00:49That's a very interesting question. I have to do with people is concerned about and people
00:54have to know about it. Well, in January, we have dedicated two strategies in the different
01:02territories and national territories, national strategies. And one of the priorities has
01:07been the energy program that deals with electricity and other issues too, energy issues, the use
01:19of fuel and this. We have actualized this strategy. Though just what happened is there was a strategy
01:29that was from two years ago that has a main objective that was the energy transition and
01:37renewable services and renewable services and the use to be dependent from the fuel use. The
01:46way in which a manner of coercitive measures the USA have done amid this situation, we have said
01:53that they are guided to blockade the energy in our country. We have to go to renewable sources,
02:03energy. Then to answer your question, I have to speak about the result that we have about, we have had
02:20about applying this theory in last year and to ratify this in this year, just to bring it to the actual
02:29moment, to the current moment during these days. Well, the situation was so complex last
02:37year that the few results that we have did not allow to see. The impact, the real impact
02:52that we had last year that was in the years that we were more stuck, we recovered last
03:03year more than 900 megawatts in the distributed energy in our country. Why we haven't seen
03:14this impact? Because it has coincided with the height of recovery of distributed energy,
03:23but we have not enough oil. For instance, we have four weeks that we are in zero in distributed
03:34energy. We cannot 1,140 megawatts in the hard time, if we are moving during these days just
03:53between 1,600 and 118 megawatts. We have reached even 2,000. If we have had all 1,200 megawatts
04:11from distributed energy, so we have minimized this problem in a particular time. In this
04:20high electricity time, we could close this night with energy, but it was a result that
04:29we have not taken advantage, but it is there. There it is. Also, we recover generation capacity
04:45that has to do with the process that we have powering in repairing and maintaining the main
04:52power plants in our country. The impact has not seen because we have had very big lack, but
05:02we have kept the lack having functioning only during that time, the energy plants and the deficit has
05:21been done equal like in other times in which we could have a part of the distributed generation, but we
05:29have what we had recovered in generation, in the heat generation. That's why we cannot see the impact.
05:37And the third dimension that we work, and we have very notable results, is in the investment that we did
05:47in that bad year in the matter of renewable sources of energy. Last year, we did an investment, and we
06:01installed more than 1,000 megawatts in electrical generation with photovoltaic parks. Around 49 photovoltaic
06:10products were installed in the country. That is why, before 2025, the person that was given to renewable
06:27forces was only the 3%. And with that investment, in just one year, we grew, we went from 3 to 10% of
06:37generation. So we grow in 7%. And the people can ask themselves, where is that energy? Imagine that
06:48during the day, we haven't had distributed generation, and we were counted off with the
06:56electric plants, some of them. They are in reparation. It's why, during the day, we haven't had those very
07:06high times of deficit, because simply because that 1,000 megawatts are generating a daily percent,
07:19the 38% of the energy that the people needs on that moment. And we can have a level of deficit,
07:31control of a deficit during the day. Let's see another way. If we didn't have that 1,000 megawatts,
07:43during the day, we have had less than 900 megawatts during the day. And in a system like cost, with 900 megawatts
07:54of generation, more than 1,300 megawatts of generation, more than 1,000, 2,300 megawatts of deficit during the day.
08:03We have a difference during the day and during the night. It could be during all the day.
08:13The country would live all the time in blackouts. All the time the system would be unstable, and there was a total blackout.
08:25And in two or three days, we would go back to instability. Now, Alec was asking me a few days ago, and why there is a perception that the blackout has come during the day.
08:40And there are occasionally, it has heightened, and there are more problems with the oil, the temperature, the sun is weak, and things are complicated.
08:54Well, we are working, and we analyze the deficit we have had before January. In January and February, more or less, it is the same.
09:07During the day, we prioritize the energy during the day to the population. But we have stopped the industry. We have stopped agricultural activities. We had stopped the main factories, the main exportation centers, the main production centers of goods for the population.
09:34And also making a real analysis of the conditions in the country. We said, well, we need some energy for the economy during the day, knowing that it is going to affect the population.
09:53But the population also receives what we produce in the economy. And it is going to be more complicated, and the impact is going to be bigger in the life of Cuba.
10:05Then on that concept, the deficit has been equal. But from that investment on, this part of this energy is going to the economy. That's why during the day, we are priorizing just the water just for the plantations, the rice plantations,
10:28that is going to have a crop that is going to cover the 40% of the rice that the people eat in a year. Rice with national production so that we are not going to import it. We are priorizing other entities that generate exportations.
10:53We can give energy. We can give energy to entities that substitute exportations. We could give energies for the tobacco that is a very important crop in our country. Now, as all provinces were affected, to level this in the country, what is it felt the most in Havana, in the capital? Why?
11:22Why? Because it is the one that has more capacity to ask for energy, to power the energy in the other provinces. That is why there is an appreciation that deficit is bigger, because we are wrong in that concept.
11:43Are we wrong in that concept? Are we wrong in that concept? Or it is a way to give a part of this investment for the economy just to go up? Under that concept, we are working. I am speaking about the result of last year and what it has meant just the electricity situation right now.
12:10Now, what have we said? Not only to electricity, but as a concept to the energy situation in our country. Because this pressure, this situation that we are living, and I say from an idealist focus, it is a rational focus, an optimist one, but also realistic.
12:34We have we have to make use of this as an opportunity. And to understand the country has to be able to be sustainable in the energy with our own sources, with our national crude, heavy national crude, with the renewable sources of energy.
12:56We have we have we have we have we have we have sun, we have biomass, we can generate biogas.
13:03And that concept be applied to generation to electrical generation. And that is the concept that brings on what we are saying in the energetic plan related to electricity.
13:22And of course, it is not going to be achieved with a jump. But we had 1000 megawatts and we are going to have a very close level this year, we are going to be close to 15 or 20% of electrical generation with these services.
13:49And so the proposal for 230 was about the 30%. Now what we are doing? What other actions are we doing in this program to continue the promise of to keep on with the power plants?
14:10Because in this term, because in this term, we can generate this without importing oil to keep on with the promise of incrementing the renewable sources of energy.
14:27We are going to keep on with the power plants. We are going to have 28 megawatts. We are going to have 28 megawatts more in full-operative parks.
14:32In March, at the end of March, we are going to have 59 megawatts. And so every every month in the year, we are going to have more megawatts as we did last year.
14:43We are in investment not only just to increase the renewable energy, but with accumulating the renewable sources of energy with accumulating, we are going to strengthen the system with energies that is going to be accumulated during the day.
15:10And to have energy for the night. And that makes us totally independent of the use of fossil fuel. We are installing 5,000 photovoltaic systems, let's see domestic one, in the houses of 2 kilowatts each in the province, in the province, in the
15:40places where this electricity was not given because they were isolated houses. We are having very difficult access places. When we achieve this, we are going to have the 100% of electricity in the country.
15:59But those houses that did not have electricity are going to start having it because they are going to accumulate it and they are going to enjoy what they have never enjoyed before.
16:11And it's going to be enough for the houses that were left and a group of houses that were in it. The energy that they receive was for a few hours because they have a few plants or hydroelectric plants that depends on the water that was in the river or certain connections that they have.
16:33So we are bettering 5,000 houses under this concept. On the other hand, we are installing 5,000 photovoltaic models in vital centers to give service to the population.
16:55We are doing all this. We are doing all this amid these circumstances, amid this moment. And 161 care houses are going to benefit with this plan.
17:13We have had models of this kind of kids that have diseases that they need to have energy in their houses all day long. We gave it last year to 161 years. And we are going to give 121 more during this year.
17:35I spoke about 136 houses for elderly people. 156 polyclinics. Just in the emergency rooms, they are going to have this system.
17:57136 banks. One of the main problems that the population have is when there is a blackout, they can have bank operations. So it's going to be solved with this.
18:11149 commercial offices where people have to go to do some tramits. Here was spoken about all-man houses, polyclinic. It is created for the 169 municipalities in our country.
18:30And we are not going to stop. We are going to keep on going. There are 10,000 photovoltaic systems. 5,000 plus 5,000, there are 10,000.
18:4110,000 houses, institutions that are not going to be needed to be connected to the national system.
18:49There is a priority for people from the educational system and the health system. Doctors, teachers, professors, workers from the health system.
19:08People from education and the superior education are two sectors that give a lot to the society.
19:17People that work with very complex situation with payment facilities to a long-term payment. There are 10,000 people more. 10,000 houses more.
19:3610,000 houses more. 10,000 houses more. We are going to incentivize people that buy in the system. They want to support the national system. Or they want to give it to a community or to a neighborhood or to a group of houses.
20:00have given in the matter of, for a house, it could be bought from the better way. Also
20:16this year, we are going to recover eolic capacity in some parts that we have in the country,
20:23but they work with certain problems, technical problems, and there are new investments in
20:28eolic energy, mainly in La Herradura in Las Tunas. This is a group of action that are going
20:39to be done in this program that is actualized and is telling us the way we want to walk through.
20:51And here, as I said before, there is another group of things that we are doing to help that
20:59we are going to receive, projects that we are doing, and in the measure that we have, the
21:08answer, they are going to widen this situation. Last year, our country had a capacity in the
21:23teaching of the people that are operating or doing these parks. So before, there were three months to
21:34finish a park, and now we are doing it in 45 days. So the capacity is better now to be done in Cuba,
21:44even just to give help to other countries that need this cooperation. And we have a group in new
21:53technologies. We are going to do other developments in a group, with a group of scientists,
21:59leaders, led by leaders who have been watchful in the way that these actions should be done. So this
22:12has had science and innovation. This was a topic that was taken to the Council of Innovation last year,
22:20and it is a reality that is having this impact that I am explaining to you. If there is something
22:26change in some kind of information against you, you must have to reduce your
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