CTE Felton
Thermoelectric plant in Holguín, eastern Cuba; Unit 2 offline during the 15 April 2026 peak deficit.
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Timeline for CTE Felton
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Background
CTE Felton is a thermoelectric power station in Holguín province, eastern Cuba, built with Soviet-era technology and running on heavy fuel oil. It serves the eastern provinces and has been subject to the same cycle of deferred maintenance and fuel shortages affecting Cuba's whole thermoelectric fleet; Holguín has seen some of the most prolonged daily blackouts in 2025-2026, partly as a result of Felton's unreliability.
On 15 April 2026 Felton's 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.
Unit 2 was offline again when Cuba's National Grid collapsed completely on 6 July 2026, after the separate failure of Unit 6 at the Nuevitas plant in Camagüey, the fourth total SEN collapse of the year. The three-day staged restoration Left a post-restoration deficit above 2,000 MW nationally. Felton's repeated failures illustrate the systemic character of Cuba's energy crisis: not a single-plant problem but a fleet-wide deterioration driven by decades of underinvestment, parts scarcity and the fuel-supply pressure of US Executive Order 14380, in effect since January 2026.