Mirna Clavijo, 84, and her daughter Isabel Gutierrez, 61, cook dinner as Cuba’s national electric grid collapsed for the second time in a week, in Havana, Cuba, on March 21, 2026. (Norlys Perez/Reuters_HAVANA—Cuba had restored power to nearly half of the capital Havana by Sunday afternoon, officials said, less than 24 hours after the national grid collapsed for the second time in a week amid a U.S. oil blockade that has dealt a major blow to the island’s already ailing energy infrastructure.The grid failed Saturday evening at 6:32 p.m. after a major power plant in Nuevitas, in eastern Cuba’s Camaguey province, went offline, grid operator UNE said, causing a cascade effect that knocked out power to the nation’s approximately 10 million people.
Cuba Restores Power to Havana After 2nd Grid Collapse in a Week
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