Solidarity project in Holguin promotes renewable energy use

The Luxembourg-Cuba solidarity network contributes to the use of 1renewable energy in the province of Holguin, through projects for the installation of photovoltaic panels in this eastern territory, the third most densely populated in ther country.

Renewable energy

Alexander Leyva Valdespino, president of the Cuban Society for the Promotion of Renewable Energy Sources and Environmental Respect (CUBASOLAR), told ACN that the benefits include the installation of hydraulic pumps in communities that are very difficult to reach at.

He pointed out that the inhabitants of these settlements, concentrated in the municipality of Báguanos, did not previously have this service, due to the limitations in electricity generation and the intricate geography of the locality.

It also extends to pumping systems in farms in that municipality and La Melba, in Moa, one of the territories prioritized in the government’s plan for the transformation of vulnerable neighborhoods in Holguín, he said.

Renewable energy

He also stressed that this program benefits educational, social and service institutions, including primary schools, bakeries and children’s circles, where solar heaters are also installed with the aim of reducing the demand for electricity generated from fossil fuels.

The Luxembourg-Cuba Solidarity Network is a non-governmental organization, which since 2014 has been promoting and financing projects to boost local development and the use of renewable energy sources in several provinces, including Holguín and Villa Clara.

The country has more than 245 thousand solar panels installed mainly in isolated and difficult to access communities, and 162 hydroelectric plants, which contributes to the substitution of the energy matrix, which depends more than 95 percent on oil.

With information by Eileen Esther Molina Fernández from ACN / Translated by Radio Angulo