Cuba celebrates today the Electricity Workers’ Day in the context of the laudable efforts of this sector to keep the National Electricity System (SEN) vital, which suffers from the lack of fuel, among other problems.

The Government of the island, in response to the priority it has given to this activity, decided to allocate tens of thousands of pesos to increase the salary and other income of electrical workers, whose social recognition grows along with the adversities.

In addition to encouraging its affiliates for such important work, the commemoration of Electricity Workers’ Day recalls the intervention of the Cuban Electricity Company by the revolutionary Antonio Guiteras on a similar date in 1934.

The complex economic situation on the island, accentuated by the intensification of the US blockade, is reflected particularly harshly in this activity and has its direct effect on the interruption of the electricity service.

In this context, the workers in the trade dedicated long days to the rehabilitation of the power generating plants, and to the search for their own innovations to counteract technological obsolescence and the impossibility of carrying out all the planned maintenance.

Despite the limited financial and material resources, Cubans recognise the expertise, willingness and efforts of electricity workers during the disconnections of the SEN that took place in 2024 as a result of the aforementioned problems.

Likewise, this guild stands out with particular relevance in the replacement of lines, high-voltage towers and the restoration of electricity service, after the passage of meteorological phenomena such as hurricanes Oscar, Rafael and the earthquakes that affected several Cuban provinces last year.

The sector, together with several state agencies, is undertaking crucial investments to transform the nation’s energy matrix, including the installation of dozens of photovoltaic solar parks that will help reduce dependence on increasingly expensive fossil fuels on the international market.