Cuban national power system restored after third nationwide blackout in just over a week

HAVANA, July 15– Cuba’s national power system was fully restored at 7:00 a.m. local time (1100 GMT) on Wednesday, the National Electric Union announced, ending a third nationwide blackout that hit the island in just over a week.

The outage began on Tuesday at 11:05 a.m. local time, according to the statement issued by the National Electric Union. It followed two previous total collapses on July 6 and July 10.