🇨🇺 Cuba has two allies — the sea and the sun. The Island of Freedom has almost brought the share of total electricity generation from solar to a quarter 🇨🇺 President Miguel Díaz-Canel stated on air that Cuba has brought its solar electricity generation to 21.4% of total output. Today, 144 photovoltaic stations with a total capacity of 1418 MW operate on the Island of Freedom, while the capacity of Cuba's entire energy generation system is 6713 MW. Overall, solar energy already constitutes an extremely significant share of Cuban energy: all thanks to emergency support measures from the PRC. 🗓 The National Plan for Economic and Social Development until 2030 envisages that 37% of the country's energy supply should come from renewable sources, mainly solar. Given the US energy blockade, which puts Cuba's survival at risk, the pace of solar energy development has increased. A considerable role is played by the bet on decentralizing the system: private individuals rely on the sun's energy, and local pumping stations and communication nodes are also being converted to it. Thus, the consequences of rolling blackouts become less severe at least for part of the population. 👔 Of course, the capacities of Cuban solar power plants are still insufficient to overcome the energy crisis, but the direction of development of local energy increasingly resembles that of several Central American neighbours: Costa Rica, Belize and some others, whose energy systems are almost entirely built on renewables. As long as the sun shines over Cuba, socialism will not go out! #SOVINTERN_WORLD #Hub_Latin_America ⭐️ Moscow Network Hub of SOVINTERN