CTE Felton
Thermoelectric plant in Holguín, eastern Cuba; Unit 2 offline during the 15 April 2026 peak deficit.
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Why do so many Cuban power stations fail at the same time?
Timeline for CTE Felton
UNE forecasts 1,732 MW blackout at evening peak
Cuba Dispatch- Where is CTE Felton in Cuba?
- CTE Felton is a thermoelectric power station in Holguín province, eastern Cuba, running on heavy fuel oil.
- Is Cuba's power system at risk of total collapse?
- Multiple large plants fail simultaneously. On 15 April 2026 Felton, Ernesto Guevara, and Antonio Maceo were all partially offline at once, driving a 1,732 MW deficit.Source: UNE
Background
CTE Felton is a thermoelectric power station located in Holguín province, eastern Cuba. On 15 April 2026 its Unit 2 was out of service, part of a cluster of simultaneous failures across CTE Ernesto Guevara, CTE Antonio Maceo, and CTE Felton that drove the national generation deficit to 1,732 MW at peak.
CTE Felton operates on heavy fuel oil and was built with Soviet-era technology. It serves the eastern provinces and has been subject to the same cycle of deferred maintenance and fuel shortages affecting the whole Cuban thermoelectric fleet. Holguín province has seen some of the most prolonged daily blackouts in 2025-2026, partly as a result of Felton's unreliability.
The simultaneous failure of Felton alongside the other large eastern plants illustrates the systemic character of Cuba's energy crisis: it is not a single-plant problem but a fleet-wide deterioration driven by decades of underinvestment, parts scarcity, and, since January 2026, the fuel supply pressure of US Executive Order 14380.