Cuba’s Electric Grid: Challenges and Opportunities

Name: Cuba’s Electric Grid: Challenges and Opportunities
Start: 2023-03-15T12:00:00-04:00
End: 2023-03-15

Wednesday, March 15, 2023 12pm

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In this briefing, energy industry expert Jorge R. Piñón documents the multiple challenges faced by Cuba’s National Electric System (SEN), including an obsolete and collapsing infrastructure, as well as the lack of maintenance capital and the high contaminating effects of its current operation. Piñón advocates for a decentralized model of planning to rebuild Cuba’s electrical system.

This event is free and open to the public. Hosted by the Cuban Research Institute. Part of the Cuba and the Professions series, Made possible with support from LACC's US Department of Education Title VI Grant. Cosponsored by FIU's CasaCuba.

For more information, please write cri@fiu.edu or call (305) 348-1991.

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Cuban Research Institute, Kimberly Green Latin American and Caribbean Center

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