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by aegypti 278 days ago
"There has been a total disconnection of the Electric System," the (Cuban state) Energy Ministry and National Electric Union said.

The (Cuban) grid operator said the grid collapsed at 9.14 a.m. (1314 GMT) on the Caribbean island.

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AngryData 278 days ago
They have been holding 50% of their internet traffic for over 8 hours. Sure seems like quite a lot of energy is being generated. Is the power generation islanded? Most definitely. But Cuba's grid is already built with the expectation for chunks of it to go down due to severe storm damage and has tons of local power generation.
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lkbm 277 days ago
Why would the Cuban government lie about this, though? Seems like they should be lying in the other direction.
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