Cienfuegos, Cuba, April 4, 2025 (AFP) - Cuba looks to sun to solve its energy crisis

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2025-04-04

Not far from the ruins of an unfinished nuclear power plant in the Cuban province of Cienfuegos, hundreds of workers are hastily installing 44,000 solar panels as the island seeks once again to reduce its reliance on oil to escape an energy crisis. Forty years ago, the solution was thought to be Russian nuclear energy. This time, it is the sun. With help from China. Dozens of containers with Chinese inscriptions are lined up at the "La Yuca" phot......

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