[CubaNews] Camaguey Puts New Power Generators in Use

["Walter Lippmann" <walterlx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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GRANMA
October 4, 2007

Camaguey Puts New Power Generators in Use 

Carlos Lage presided over the opening ceremony of the new installation, the
first one in the province that will operate using fuel oil instead of
diesel.
 
ENRIQUE MILANES LEON
 
CAMAGÜEY.- The importance of inaugurating newly constructed installations
when they are finished and have already proven their successful operation
was highlighted by Carlos Lage Davila, a vice-president of the Council of
State on Wednesday.

LAGE NOTED THE EXCELLENT CONSTRUCTION WORK DONE AT THE NEW POWER GENERATING
FACILITY.

Lage presided over the official opening of the first group of electricity
generators in the province that use fuel oil. The new facility is located on
the North Beltway of Camaguey city.

The generating capacity, Lage announced, is capable of providing all the
electricity required by the historical center of the city, the provincial
hospital as well as the north strip, where the industrial installations that
require large amounts of electric power are located.

He explained that with this group of generators Camaguey and the nation have
now reached a total of 300 megaWatts/hour of generating capacity using
engines that operate with fuel oil. This is the equivalent generating
capacity of a large thermoelectric power station like the Antonio 
Guiteras plant in Matanzas, but with advantages, he noted. With the local
generators, the electricity lost during its transmission is much less, and
at the same time the inconveniences caused by interruptions of service are
minimized.

Lage informed that Cuba now has a total installed electricity generating
capacity of 3,500 mega Watts, far greater than the nation's peak load
demand.

He said with the present strategy the guidelines given by Commander-in-Chief
Fidel Castro of designing an electricity generation system that would be
more decentralized, highly efficient and operate with a lower specific fuel
consumption has been accomplished. The system makes use of the natural gas
that accompanies oil extraction and is keeping ahead of the increase in
demand.

When making reference about the advances now in progress, Lage said that in
Camaguey province alone, contemplating all the different options of
generating electricity, the nation's 397 megaWatts generating capacity that
existed prior to the Revolution is surpassed.

Accompanied by Julio Cesar Rodriguez, first secretary of the Communist Party
in the province, and Jesus Garcia Collazo, president of the Provincial
Assembly of the People's Power, Lage also visited the Camaguey province fish
production program and in particular the aquaculture project in Sibanicu
municipality.

At the country?s first fish farm devoted to intensive growing of catfish,
slated to provide 50 tons of food during its first year of operation, Lage
insisted in that growth of both this program, the production of African
Tilapia using cages and others, must be achieved on the basis of diminishing
the amount of foreign exchange needed for imports, and lowering the overall
production costs.


Inaugurada en Camagüey batería de grupo electrógeno

Presidió Carlos Lage la ceremonia de apertura de este emplazamiento, primero
de la provincia que trabajará con fuel oil

Enrique Milanés León

CAMAGÜEY.? La conveniencia de inaugurar las obras cuando estén terminadas y
hayan probado su eficiencia con el buen funcionamiento y la calidad de su
construcción, fue señalada por Carlos Lage Dávila, miembro del Buró Político
del Partido y secretario del Comité Ejecutivo del Consejo de Ministros.

Foto: Lage destacó la buena terminación de esta obra.

Lage presidió aquí la ceremonia de apertura oficial del primer emplazamiento
de baterías de grupos electrógenos de fuel oil de la provincia, ubicado en
la circunvalación norte de esta ciudad. La capacidad de este, anunció,
satisface la necesidad energética del hospital provincial, el centro
histórico de Camagüey y la franja norte, donde se ubican industrias de gran
consumo eléctrico.

Explicó que con esta batería de Camagüey el país tiene ahora más de 300
megaWatts/hora generados con motores de fuel oil, equivalentes a las
posibilidades de una termoeléctrica como la Antonio Guiteras, pero con
ventajas al evitarse pérdidas de transmisión, a la vez que minimiza las
afectaciones por interrupciones.

Informó que hoy Cuba dispone de una capacidad instalada de 3 500 megaWatts,
muy superior a la demanda máxima nacional.

Con la estrategia actual, subrayó, se cumplen las indicaciones del
Comandante en Jefe Fidel Castro de diseñar un sistema de generación
eléctrica más descentralizado, con bajo consumo de combustible, que
aproveche el gas acompañante de la producción petrolera y marche delante del
incremento de la demanda con la mayor eficiencia posible.

Al referirse a los avances que se experimentan dijo que solo esta provincia,
con todas sus variantes, supera los 397 megaWatts de que disponía toda Cuba
al triunfo de la Revolución.

Acompañado por Julio César García Rodríguez, primer secretario del Partido
en la provincia, y Jesús García Collazo, presidente de la Asamblea
Provincial del Poder Popular, Lage también se interesó en el municipio de
Sibanicú, por el programa pesquero de Camagüey, en particular por la
acuicultura.

En la primera granja de cría intensiva de claria del país, que en su primer
año aportará 50 toneladas de ese alimento, Lage insistió en que tanto este
como el de tilapia en jaula y otros programas tienen que crecer sobre la
base de disminuir las necesidades en divisa para contrastarlas con la
importación, así como bajar sus costos productivos.



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