Inside The World’s Longest-Running Blockade
SBS Dateline

An $8 billion investment would enable Cuba to generate approximately 93% of its electricity from renewable sources, effectively ending its reliance on imported fossil fuels for power. See the report by the Common Wealth think tank’s Transition Security Project (TSP).

Modeling four different scenarios, the TSP analysis found that a fully renewable grid for Cuba would cost $19.2 billion, but an $8 billion investment would be sufficient to end the country’s reliance on imported fossil fuels. Even a $5 billion rollout would reduce Cuba’s reliance on fossil fuels to just a fifth of electricity generation.

Under the most ambitious proposal, solar would provide three-quarters of electricity generation, with a fifth from wind and the remainder from hydropower and bioenergy. Cheaper scenarios would rely more on bioenergy and wind.

Meanwhile, the US is likely planning on an invasion of Cuba.

How Green Energy Could Save Cuba
CGTN America

Cuba has faced at least five nationwide blackouts in the past year as aging oil plants fail and fuel supplies dwindle. Now, with Chinese support, the island is planning to build more than 50 solar parks this year.

This is part of an ambitious plan to generate 2,000 megawatts of renewable power by 2028. From Havana, Luis Chirino reports on how solar energy is reshaping Cuba’s response to its crippling power shortages.