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Cuba experiences seventh nationwide electrical grid collapse of the year

Cuba's national electrical grid has collapsed again, leaving millions of residents without power in what reports describe as the seventh major outage this year. By the following day, only approximately 5% of an estimated 860,000 customers in Havana had seen electricity restored. The broader timeline for full restoration across the island remains unconfirmed.

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WhereCuba
22.215, -80.275 ±400 km
First reported36 days ago
Published2026-09-19 14:15 UTC
Sources2
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Reports2Independent tellings2
2 independently corroborated tellings.

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Global Event Monitor. Cuba experiences seventh nationwide electrical grid collapse of the year. 2026-09-19T14:15:44.367Z. Status: published. urn:global-events-monitor:event:2874. https://global.eventmonitor.net/event/2026-09-19/power-grid-anomaly-cuba-e086398a

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