Cuban media reported on February 19 that Cuba, with China's aid and support, is currently setting up three photovoltaic parks in Cuba, each with a power generation capacity of 4 megawatts. Among them, the Holguin Provincial Park will install 8,480 photovoltaic cells in a 5-hectare park. Currently, 63% of the equipment installation progress has been completed. It will benefit hundreds of families after it is put into use in March this year. Work on the San Diego and Guantanamo campuses is also progressing in an orderly manner. In the context of Cuba's economic deterioration due to the US blockade and the global crisis, these photovoltaic power generation projects implemented with China's assistance make it possible to gradually replace fossil fuels and will help Cuba change its current energy structure that mainly relies on fossil fuels.
According to reports, Cuba has been implementing an ambitious and expensive plan since 2014 to introduce technologies such as biomass power generation, wind power generation, small hydropower generation and solar power generation. According to Guerra, director of the Renewable Energy Department of the Ministry of Energy and Mines of Cuba, Cuba currently has 75 photovoltaic parks with a total power generation capacity of 254 megawatts, which can save Cuba 110,000 tons of fuel for power generation and reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 360,000 tons every year. .