According to national television, since 2014, the government has been implementing an ambitious and million-dollars-worth program to introduce renewable energies, including biomass from sugar cane, wind farms, small hydroelectric plants and solar panels.

The information states that the installation of three photovoltaic parks donated by China, with a capacity to generate four megawatts each, is going as planned in the provinces of Villa Clara, Ciego de Avila (center) and Holguin (east). This form of power generation will allow the gradual substitution of fossil fuels, amid the worsening of Cuba’s economy, hit by the United States blockade and the world crisis.

Engineer Rosel Guerra, director for Renewable Energy at the Ministry of Energy and Mines, said that Cuba has 75 solar parks that provide 254 megawatts and save 110,000 tons of fuel a year.

Likewise, as a result of the use of this clean energy, 360,000 tons of carbon dioxide are no longer emitted into the environment, Guerra added.

The installation of the equipment in Holguín is 63 percent complete and next March, this site, in Freyre municipality, will benefit hundreds of homes.

Brigades from the neighboring provinces of Santiago de Cuba and Guantanamo are working on the assembly of 8,480 photovoltaic cells in an area of five hectares, the source reported.

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