Millions of Cubans face 12-hour blackouts per day, but prime minister says country ‘not yet in a bottomless abyss’.

Fun fact: USSR provided Cuba provided with discounted oil in exchange for Cuban sugar at above market prices.

  • Hexboare [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    17 days ago

    MWh? That can’t be right, that’s too low (although I appreciate the numbers for reference)

    The US DOE says about 16 TWh which sounds more reasonable for a population of ~11 million.

    2GW times 24 hours time 365 days times a capacity factor of 20 percent is an annual production of 3.5 TWh so the planned solar farms would cover about 20 percent of annual usage

    • Sodium_nitride@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
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      17 days ago

      No idea why the numbers are so different. The numbers I found were 120 GWh (not MWh, it was a typo). But that is still significantly less than the us doe estimate.