Extended electricity outage strikes in Cuba‘UNRELIABLE GRID’: The US embassy in Cuba warned people in the nation to ‘prepare for significant disruptions,’ and conserve fuel, water, food and batteriesAP, HAVANAA blackout on Wednesday left millions of people without power in Havana and the rest of western Cuba in the latest outage in the nation, which is struggling with dwindling oil reserves and a crumbling electricity grid. The government’s electric utility on X said that the outage affected people from the western town of Pinar del Rio to the central town of Camaguey. People hold Ecuadoran and Cuban flags during a demonstration outside the Cuban embassy in Quito on Wednesday. Photo: ReutersThe US embassy warned people to “prepare for significant disruptions,” and conserve fuel, water, food and mobile phone batteries. State media reported that the outage was caused by a shutdown of the Antonio Guiteras thermoelectric power plant east of Havana following a leak in its boiler.

Source: Taipei Times March 05, 2026 18:10 UTC