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Cuba suffered from electricity disruptions throughout the country in July, aside from a major outage on August 2, according to the Cuban Electricity Unity (UNE) and reports from international media. The latest incident on Friday saw the country's national electricity grid fail completely, leaving the entire nation in darkness as the nation faced a power crisis, UNE reported via X platform.

The national electrical system experienced a full-scale disruption. The restoration protocol is now being activated, UNE said through X. The utility company announced an immediate investigation to identify the cause of the disruption and the progress of efforts to restore the system will be updated. This is a fresh disruption in a series of power blackouts across Cuba this year, as the country's aging energy infrastructure grapples with fuel shortages and limited generation capacity.

Cuba experienced several electricity disruptions across the nation in July, in addition to a major outage on August 2, according to authorities and international media reports. The Friday outage marked a fresh development, with the national electricity grid failing completely. This occurred following a prolonged electricity shortage in Havana and several other regions, with some areas of the capital reportedly experiencing outages of over 30 hours since several weeks ago.

Cuba's power system was strained due to deteriorating power infrastructure condition, fuel shortages, and challenges in maintaining generation capacity. The Ministry of Energy and Mining previously linked the power disruption to a combination of aging infrastructure, fuel shortages, and issues in the generation system. Renewable energy sources could help increase generation capacity, but the power infrastructure remains a key component of Cuba's power system.

The Cuban government blamed steps and restrictions by the United States, which restricted fuel supplies, as factors worsening the energy crisis, while Washington linked the economic and infrastructure problems of the country to the root of the nation's government.