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Sweeping blackouts in Cuba raise the question: Why has the island’s solar buildout been so slow?
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Sweeping blackouts in Cuba raise the question: Why has the island’s solar buildout been so slow?

HAVANA (AP) — Cuba’s large-scale blackouts that left 10 million people without power this month may not have happened if the government had built out more solar power to boost its failing…
Posted by John McCarthy October 27, 2024
Cuba fights to come back from a nationwide blackout, then a storm that killed 7
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Cuba fights to come back from a nationwide blackout, then a storm that killed 7

HAVANA (AP) — A small town in Cuba was recovering Tuesday from flooding that killed at least seven people after Oscar crossed the island’s eastern coast as a tropical storm with winds and heavy…
Posted by John McCarthy October 23, 2024
Cuba grid collapses again raising doubts about a quick fix
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Cuba grid collapses again raising doubts about a quick fix

HAVANA - Cuba's electrical grid collapsed again on Sunday, the fourth such failure in 48 hours, raising fresh doubts about a quick fix on an island already suffering from severe…
Posted by John McCarthy October 22, 2024
Cubans struggle with an extended power outage and a new tropical storm
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Cubans struggle with an extended power outage and a new tropical storm

HAVANA (AP) — Many Cubans waited in anguish and some took to the streets in protest as widespread blackouts stretched into their third day. Their concerns were heightened as a…
Posted by John McCarthy October 21, 2024
Oscar brings winds, heavy rains to eastern Cuba after striking the Bahamas
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Oscar brings winds, heavy rains to eastern Cuba after striking the Bahamas

HAVANA — Tropical Storm Oscar brought heavy rains and winds to Cuba, an island already beleaguered by a massive power outage, late Sunday after brushing the Bahamas. It made landfall…
Posted by John McCarthy October 21, 2024
Hurricane Oscar makes landfall in the Bahamas, heads towards Cuba
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Hurricane Oscar makes landfall in the Bahamas, heads towards Cuba

NASSAU — Hurricane Oscar made landfall early today in the southeastern Bahamas and was heading towards Cuba. Oscar, which the hurricane center characterized as "very small," is the 15th named…
Posted by John McCarthy October 20, 2024
As Cuba’s nationwide blackout continues, a look at why the electrical grid collapsed
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As Cuba’s nationwide blackout continues, a look at why the electrical grid collapsed

HAVANA — As Cuba’s electrical grid shut down Friday, leaving millions of Cubans without power nationwide hours after the government declared an “energy emergency,” authorities have not said when the…
Posted by John McCarthy October 19, 2024
Nearly half of Cuba without power as blackouts deepen
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Nearly half of Cuba without power as blackouts deepen

HAVANA — More than half of Cuba was without power on Thursday evening as fuel shortages and broken-down power plants left the government with little choice but to black out…
Posted by John McCarthy October 6, 2024
Cuba slashes size of daily bread ration as ingredients run thin
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Cuba slashes size of daily bread ration as ingredients run thin

HAVANA — Cuba's communist-run government slashed by a quarter the weight of its subsidized ration of daily bread, the latest shortage to strain a decades-old subsidies scheme created by the…
Posted by John McCarthy September 27, 2024
Helene makes landfall in northwestern Florida as a Category 4 hurricane
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Helene makes landfall in northwestern Florida as a Category 4 hurricane

CRAWFORDVILLE, Florida (AP) — Hurricane Helene made landfall Thursday night in northwestern Florida as a Category 4 storm as forecasters warned that the enormous system could create a “nightmare” storm surge and bring dangerous winds and…
Posted by John McCarthy September 27, 2024

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