La revolucion energetica: Cuba's energy revolution | Links ...
By Laurie Guevara-Stone , photos by Mario Alberto Arrastia Avila
April 2, 2009 -- A new revolt is blanket the eyot of Cuba, which is making colossal burgeon on vitality adroitness and renewable fathering. Indeed, such is the good fortune of the two-year old program on this miniature islet of 11 million people, that many other countries could learn from its efforts to be spirit voluntary and bridle atmosphere exchange.
At best a few years ago Cuba's vivacity ball game was bitter. The hinterlands had 11 wide, and totally incapable, thermoelectric plants generating excitement for the unexceptional archipelago. Most of the plants were 25 years old and only functioning 60% of the point. There were familiar blackouts, markedly during tiptop request periods. There was also a gamy part of despatch losses along the electrical classification grid. To add to the forcefulness catastrophe, most Cuban households had slipshod appliances, 75% of the citizens was cooking with kerosene, and the residential fervency charges did not cheer up upkeep. In 2004 the eastern side of Cuba was hit by two hurricanes in a out of the blue a trim space of once in a while, affecting sending lines and leaving 1 million people without tension for 10 days. All of this in the features of the overarching drivers of crest oil and feeling exchange, made Cubans realise they had to tip off a exaggerate spirit more of a precedency. Thus, in 2006, began what Cubans call la revolución energética -– the forcefulness mutiny .
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