HAVANA (AP) 鈥� Cuban officials said they expect to restart a large thermoelectric plant on Saturday after it shut down earlier in the week,
Felix Estrada Rodr铆guez, a top engineer at Cuba鈥檚 Electric Union, told state-owned Canal Caribe that the Antonio Guiteras plant should be operating by Saturday afternoon.
Crews have repaired a broken boiler at the plant that caused the outage on Wednesday, in the island鈥檚 western region.
Estrada Rodr铆guez said it was a slow process that had to be done safely.
鈥淚t is a confined space with a high temperature,鈥� he said.
Cuba鈥檚 Electric Union said in a statement Saturday that only 1,000 megawatts of power were available, less than half of the island’s current demand. It did not say how many customers remained without power.
The blackout, the to affect western Cuba in three months, was blamed on a crumbling electric grid and a lack of fuel.
Cuba, which imports most of its oil from Venezuela, recently implemented austere fuel-saving measures after the U.S. attacked the South American country and arrested its leader, leading to a halt in critical oil shipments.
Just weeks after the attack on Venezuela in early January, U.S. President Donald Trump on any country that sells or supplies oil to Cuba.
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