Power restored to most of Cuban capital after blackout
Cubans chat at night on a street in the capital, Havana, during a nationwide blackout caused by a grid failure, October 18, 2024. —Adalberto Roque/AFP
HAVANA—Electricity has been restored to almost 90 percent of Havana, the Cuban capital’s energy supplier reported Monday, but several provinces remained without power four days after the start of a nationwide blackout.
The lights went out for the Communist-run island’s 10 million people on Friday after the collapse of the nation’s largest power plant crippled the whole grid.
By Monday afternoon, around 89 percent of customers in Havana—home to some 2 million people—had power again, the capital’s electricity company said in a report published by state-run news portal Cubadebate.
