Cuba’s electrical grid collapses, leaving millions in ‘total blackout’

Published March 15, 2025 12:56pm ET



Cuba‘s electric grid collapsed late Friday leading to a nationwide power outage and leaving millions in the dark. 

At around 8:15 p.m., an outage at the Diezmero substation in Havana caused “a significant loss of generation in western Cuba and, with it, the failure of the National Electric System,” Cuba’s Ministry of Energy and Mines said Friday on X.

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