Cuba has 14 power plants in this atlas, with 3,797 MW of reported capacity. The largest listed plant is Havana TPP (500 MW, oil; current status unverified). By number of records the most common technologies are oil, gas and solar. Grid operators listed here include Unión Eléctrica. Renewables supplied 4% of its electricity in 2024.
Reported capacity is the rated size of the listed installations, not electricity being produced now. Source dates and coverage differ, so newer facilities may be absent and historical records may remain.
Grid operators and electricity market in Cuba
Vertically integrated utilityOne utility does everything
Ageing oil-fired plants and Turkish power ships supply most power. Frequent failures caused island-wide blackouts in 2024 and 2025.
GenerationState utility
TransmissionState utility
DistributionState utility
CustomersGovernment-set tariffs
Who regulates
No separate independent regulator is listed: the government or the utility itself sets tariffs and technical rules.
Who controls the grid
The state Unión Eléctrica (UNE) runs generation, the national grid and distribution.
No power exchange: the utility produces or buys electricity and sells it at set tariffs.
Regional grid
Not part of a larger synchronous grid or regional power pool.
What does “Vertically integrated utility” mean?
A single, usually state-owned utility generates, transmits and distributes electricity. Prices are set or approved by the government or a regulator rather than by a market.
ARIAE verifies Unión Eléctrica as the source of electricity-sector legislation and links its official website. Detailed current network-operating responsibilities have not yet been independently documented in this directory.
References reviewed 2026-09-29. Logos are each organisation’s own site icon, shown to identify it. Selected organisations, not an exhaustive list of licence holders.
Cuba is in Caribbean. Its coastal or island geography provides a different setting for electricity infrastructure from inland systems. This profile connects country reference information with the historical station inventory and reported electricity generation.
Capital
Havana
Languages
Spanish
Region
Caribbean
Geographic reference: Countries geographic database (ODbL). Boundaries and names are for orientation; language listings are introductory, not exhaustive. Banner map: Natural Earth boundaries (public domain) with this atlas’s station records.
The source inventory contains 14 records for Cuba. Select a fuel in the map to explore where its stations are located, then open a record to inspect reported capacity and provenance.
Inventory coverage
14 source records. 0 reported operational in their source snapshot; this is not live status.
Browse 14 source records, ordered by reported capacity. Ownership and operating status describe the source snapshot; they may have changed. Missing information is shown explicitly.
