CubaPLUS Magazine

Prensa Latina Photos in Cuba, although this time we will talk more about windmills, we will first say there is a whole path defined for the promotion and development of clean or renewable energies, free of carbon dioxide and other toxic gases, as a government objective declared by authorities, scientists and workers of the competent branch are used to the full.

Transforming the nation's energy matrix has taken years of hard work, essential for the takeoff of the Cuban economy, blocked, without large reserves of fossil fuels and at the same time determined to make an essential contribution to reducing global warming, even though the Island is far from being one of the main emitters.

Among the so-called renewable sources, an essential role is played by the promotion of the so-called wind farms, as well as the creation of hydroelectric plants, the installation of photovoltaic cells and panels, solar thermal systems, and the production of biomass. Within the state strategy, a plan has been outlined up to 2030 that projects a notable change in the energy matrix by that date.

So, research is being done, investment is being made, and work is being done to create conditions in promising areas.Today, with 95 percent of the national energy matrix depending on fossil fuels, the path is clearly traced so that the balance leans towards renewable sources, step by step, and overcoming the economic obstacles and fences that have worsened in the last threeyears.

More than 15 scientific institutions, universities and companies have traveled parts of the country identifying and validating geographic potential for electricity generation.Most are located along the north coast of the central-eastern region, mainly from Camagüey to Holguín, as far as wind energy is concerned.The popularly called Windmills.

Researchers from the Center for Physics of the Atmosphere of the Institute of Meteorology, with the contribution of other national institutions and the Canadian company Environment, have collected the data required by the enclaves where it is feasible to locate wind farms, many of which are located in theseheights are becoming true.

It was also known that the south of the western province of Pinar del Río, and the southern part of the east, present more favorable conditions for the development of wind energy. Beneficial winds blow for the mills in the East in the Sierra Cristal and Sierra de Nipe mountains: in the province of Holguín, the Sierra del Purial and the Sierra del Convento and the Sierra Maestra, in the province of Santiago de Cuba.

A good zone of action by breezes and earthworks can be seen between these elevations and the coast. The province of Las Tunas, the so-called Balcony of the East in Cuba, has more than 1,000 windmills registered in the agricultural sector and although they still have to grow much more, as planned, it is considered a step forward that already influences food production. .

The winds blow. The Windmills of Las Tunas raise the hopes of a region plagued by severe droughts and water shortages. It is a territory that is advancing at the forefront in the country, promoting at all costs the construction of wind farms and others such as solar ones, because they feel, as in the rest of the country, that it is an unavoidable need for development and even resilience, in current times.