Cuba faced power cuts across much of the country on Friday, the Energy Ministry announced. The power outages were caused by the failure of a substation, leading to the collapse of the power grid, it said on X. The Ministry added that work was under way to restore supply.

The electrical grid in Cuba is old and in need of significant modernization. Many of the power plants and transmission lines are outdated and prone to failure, especially under hi

Millions of people in Cuba are without power after a failure of the nation’s electric grid left the island in the dark