Summer Strains Energy Situation

HAVANA TIMES, June 29 — The arrival of summer has led to an increase in power consumption and the noncompliance of the saving plan established by the Cuban government, announced Tatiana Amarán Bogachova, director of the National Electricity Union’s department of rational use of energy.  According to the official, since late May the country has exceeded the plan by more than 3,000 tons of oil, reported IPS.