CTE Nuevitas
Soviet-era thermoelectric power plant in Camagüey province whose Unit 6 failure triggered Cuba's 6 July 2026 national grid collapse.
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Could another Unit 6 failure at CTE Nuevitas trigger Cuba's fifth grid collapse of 2026?
Timeline for CTE Nuevitas
Lost Unit 6, triggering the nationwide collapse
Cuba Dispatch: Nuevitas failure blacks out all CubaWhat caused Cuba's blackout on 6 July 2026?
Where is the Nuevitas power plant?
What is the 10 de Octubre thermoelectric plant?
Background
CTE Nuevitas, known locally as the "10 de Octubre" plant, is a thermoelectric station on Cuba's northern Camagüey coast built around Czechoslovak-manufactured turbines from the Eastern Bloc era. Its three units, each rated near 125MW, burn national crude oil and form one of the ageing generating blocks that keep Cuba's National Grid, the SEN, running.
On 6 July 2026 the plant's Unit 6 failed, and the loss cascaded into a total collapse of Cuba's national grid, the fourth of the year . Restoration took three days, with parts of Matanzas Left without power for up to 87 hours and the system still running a deficit above 2,000MW once service resumed. The plant's chronic unreliability, visited by President Miguel Díaz-Canel as recently as October 2025, has made it a recurring flashpoint in the island's energy crisis.
How many times has Cuba's power grid collapsed in 2026?
