Tourism supports construction of Jovellanos II Photovoltaic Solar Park.
Summoned by the Provincial Committee of the Cuban Workers’ Central (CPCTC), labor collectives of the Ministry of Tourism (MINTUR) in Matanzas support in different ways the construction of the Jovellanos II Photovoltaic Solar Park, which will have 21.87 megawatts (MW) of power.
Summoned by the Provincial Committee of the Central de Trabajadores de Cuba (CPCTC), labor groups of the Ministry of Tourism (MINTUR) in Matanzas support in different ways the Jovellanos II Photovoltaic Solar Park, which will have 21.87 megawatts (MW) of power.
Representatives of Villa Cuba and Meliá Internacional hotels, of the Gran Caribe chain, visit the construction site in the middle of the investment in Jovellanos. Photo: Courtesy of CPCTC.
The investment is in its civil execution phase, with the presence of men and women from hotels in Varadero, who frequently arrive there to stimulate the forces committed to meeting the execution schedules.
Leyva Castellanos praises emulation as a driving force in the groups in charge of the construction of the Jovellanos II Photovoltaic Solar Park. Photo: Courtesy of the CPCTC.
Rogelio Leyva Castellanos, responsible for the Economic Affairs Area of the CPCTC, praised the gesture of the representatives of the Hotel and Tourism Union, who are regularly present in that area of Jovellanos with various items to collaborate with the best attention to the builders.
Leyva highlighted the emulative movement promoted at the Photovoltaic Solar Park construction site, which has on Fridays a high point in the performance of check-ups, where the workers with the best performance during the week are rewarded.
The union leader recalled that collaborations such as these have their antecedent in the usual support given by tourism to the sugarcane workers, in support of the 2023/2014 sugar race, which endorses, he said, the altruism of the employees of the strategic sector for the Cuban economy.
With the intention of synchronizing it before the end of 2024, the Jovellanos II Photovoltaic Solar Park work is being carried out, among others, by members of the provincial Electricity Company, the 28th Construction Brigade, Cubiza, the Architecture and Engineering Projects Company and the National Applied Research Company.
Matanzas aspires to reach an installed capacity of 65.95 MW in this type of renewable energy, as part of a program that includes the two installations already existing in the municipality of Cárdenas, and another two planned for the current year.
Arnaldo Díaz, union leader at the Sol Palmeras hotel, praises the work of the construction forces of the Jovellanos II Photovoltaic Solar Park. Photo: Courtesy of CPCTC.
The investments approved for the Yumurino territory, key to the country’s productive structure, include Cuba’s intention to install, by 2028, 92 photovoltaic solar parks with the capacity to generate 2,000 MW of power (more than 20 MW each).
This will make it possible to advance towards a sovereignty that will mean to stop importing 750,000 tons of fuel, announced in March this year to Granma newspaper the Minister of Energy and Mines Vicente de la O Levy.
Written by Eva Luna Acosta Armiñán.
