The capital’s electric company highlighted on its social networks that the number of connected circuits represents 89.3 percent of the total population to be serviced.

The 10 main sources of water supply in the territory also began pumping, following the restoration of electrical service.

Minister of Energy and Mines, Vicente de la O Levy, said Monday there is a qualitatively superior electrical energy situation in the west of the country and hoped that the addition of the Antonio Guiteras thermoelectric plant into the system will further help improve the scenario.

The minister indicated that power availability now allows to transfer of some 200 megawatts to the central and eastern Cuba, supported by the Hanabanilla hydroelectric plant, and the so called “electric islands” currently generating power in the provinces at a territorial level.

The director of Electric Power at the Ministry of Energy and Mines, Lázaro Guerra, explained on national television that even if the system is interconnected, there will not be sufficient availability to satisfy all the loads. However, he expected a better fuel coverage.