According to the first vice-president of that agency, Bladimir Moya, the investment mainly benefits residents of about 7,000 mountain communities of the so-called ‘Turquino Plan’ in nine Cuban provinces and aims at increasing the use of renewable energy sources in that sector.

As part of the plan, 1,312 drinking water pumping equipment with less than 10 kilowatts of power will be replaced by photovoltaic cells, which will benefit 793,287 inhabitants and save 14.8 Gigawatts (GW) of electric energy.

Likewise, the migration to clean energies will considerably reduce the financial expenses for electricity payment to the companies of the organism, he added.

According to the vice-head of the portfolio, the INRH is the second largest consumer of electricity in the Caribbean island with an annual expenditure of more than 600 Gigawatts, which has a significant impact on the use of fossil fuels.

In a meeting with the press yesterday, Alain Nkumu, the specialist for the change of the energy matrix in that institution, explained that so far 732 traditional pumping equipments have been replaced by the aforementioned ones and another 65 are in the assembly phase.

The program he is in charge of, he said, allowed energy savings in 2024 of about 9.8 Gigawatts/hour, eliminated the supply by water pipes to 7,631 Cubans, increased the supply service from four to eight hours a day and reduced the interruption of the supply due to blackouts.

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