Do you have any clue about solar capacity in recent years? In january, a guy from a Casa Particular (he was clearly a bit aligned with the government) in Trinidad (where electricity was rationed) said that the situation would get better in a couple of weeks with some solar parks.
This relates to my second question, can China’s support be much more on channelling solar “overcapacity” to the island instead of oil tanker? Pakistan solar expansion in a period of crisis has been quite impressive.
Potentially! But while China has been shipping tons of solar panels to Cuba, demand is so great relative to capacity that most provinces are still in the dark. When provinces can stop being on 20+ hour a day blackouts then I think we can start to see Chinese solar panels as meaningfully addressing the crisis rather than just slowing the total collapse of the energy grid.
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Do you have any clue about solar capacity in recent years? In january, a guy from a Casa Particular (he was clearly a bit aligned with the government) in Trinidad (where electricity was rationed) said that the situation would get better in a couple of weeks with some solar parks.
This relates to my second question, can China’s support be much more on channelling solar “overcapacity” to the island instead of oil tanker? Pakistan solar expansion in a period of crisis has been quite impressive.
https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/pakistans-solar-surge-lifts-it-into-rarefied-25-club-2025-06-17/
Potentially! But while China has been shipping tons of solar panels to Cuba, demand is so great relative to capacity that most provinces are still in the dark. When provinces can stop being on 20+ hour a day blackouts then I think we can start to see Chinese solar panels as meaningfully addressing the crisis rather than just slowing the total collapse of the energy grid.