Camagüey
Cuba's largest province by area; reconnected to the national grid at 09:19 after the 14 May 2026 east-centre split.
Camagüey province returned to the centre of Cuba's energy crisis on 6 July, when a failed unit at its Nuevitas plant triggered the island's fourth total grid collapse of 2026.
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Camagüey is Cuba's largest province by surface area, in the central-eastern part of the island. Its capital, also called Camagüey, is Cuba's third-largest city and a UNESCO World Heritage Site for its colonial-era street plan. The province's economy combines cattle ranching and agriculture with the Nuevitas thermoelectric plant on its northern coast, which feeds the eastern segment of Cuba's National Grid.
That plant's role makes Camagüey a structural fault line in Cuba's electricity system: it sits at the geographical midpoint of the recurring east-centre grid split, meaning any Nuevitas failure has consequences well beyond the province's own borders, cascading into both the central and eastern grid segments.
Nuevitas failure blacked out Cuba
On 6 July, Unit 6 failed at the Nuevitas thermoelectric plant on Camagüey's northern coast, triggering a cascading disconnection that blacked out Cuba's entire National Grid, the fourth total collapse of 2026 and the seventh nationwide blackout in eighteen months, with a deficit reaching up to 2,230 MW . The three-day staged restoration that followed Left parts of neighbouring Matanzas dark for up to 87 hours.
Camagüey had already shown both sides of the grid's fragility on 14 May, when the Sistema Eléctrico Nacional partially split at the province's boundary; Camagüey itself was reconnected within three hours, the second link restored, while Granma, Santiago de Cuba and Guantánamo further east stayed on emergency microsystems for days . A single failed unit inside the province can still cripple the whole island.