HAVANA: Cuba was plunged into a nationwide blackout on Friday (Oct 18) after the country's biggest power plant failed, with he failure coming on the heels of weeks of extended outages across the cash-strapped country. Cuba's capital Havana came to a virtual standstill as schools closed, public transport gr

Cuba saw a total grid failure that left around 10 million people without power after a major plant went offline. The Caribbean nation has been grappling with reduced fuel deliveries.

Cuba saw a total grid failure that left around 10 million people without power after a major plant went offline. The Caribbean nation has been grappling with reduced fuel deliveries.

Cuba plunged into a countrywide blackout on Friday after one of the island's major power plants failed and caused the national electrical grid to shut down, its energy ministry said.

Cuba was plunged into a nationwide blackout after the island's biggest power plant failed, the energy ministry said, coming on the heels of weeks of extended outages across the economically devastated country.

Millions of Cubans were left without power on Friday after a failure at a power plant, the communist government said.

Millions of people are left without power on the Caribbean island, paralysing an already struggling economy.

Government closes schools, non-essential industry, sends workers home

Cuba was plunged into a nationwide blackout on Friday after the island's biggest power plant failed, the energy ministry said, coming on the heels of weeks of extended outages across the economically devastated country. "The system was left without power nationwide" after the unexpected shutdown of the Antonio Guiteras power…

Cuba’s electrical grid went down Friday after one of the island’s major power plants failed, a day after a massive blackout,

The Cuban government had just announced emergency measures to reduce electricity use — then the power went out across the entire nation.

Cuba's power grid failed on Friday, leaving 10 million people without electricity. NPR reports: One of the country's largest power plants, the Antonio Guiteras power plant in the western province of Matanzas, failed shortly before midday on Friday. The failure prompted a total breakdown of Cuba's e...

The country attempted to conserve energy earlier Friday by shuttering schools and state-operated facilities.

(Bloomberg) — Electricity went out across the entirety of Cuba after the island’s main power plant failed and the government throttled key industries in an effort to save fuel.