CAMAGÜEY.- “Unplug the refrigerator for an hour in the peak hours in the night is the least I can do to help the national and family economy. There was a remarkable reduction in the consumption in this month’s receipt”, tells a pleased Jorge Artola Medina, a seventy year-old retired from the education sector and resident in Bembeta Street.

He started applying the measure days after the country was declared in energetic emergency. Like Artola’s, there are very good habits to imitate among the over 284 000 residential clients in the province of Camagüey, segment that consumes the 65% of the generated electricity.

While he takes that stand — and also maintains on only the necessary lights during the night —, around him and in many areas there are houses lit up like “Christmas trees”. Everything remains as if broad daylight and we were in the time when Cuba imported millions of tons of oil from the extinct Soviet Union.

The Council of the Provincial Administration of the People’s Power (CAP) devoted their first work session in October to evaluate the information of the Energetic Council of September.

In that period, the territory had a demand plan for the peak in the noon of 141 MegaWatts, it was reduced in about 11 to 13 MW; while in the highest demand time during the night, foreseen of 164 MW, it did not exceed the number and it decreased in fluctuating levels between 12 and 34 MW.

Some of the measures that favored that we did not overdraw, are the self-imposed blackouts in work places in the signaled hours, to keep functioning only the essential technological means; in the night keeping the light off in internal or external areas minding that they do not become an impediment for seeing, to move productions during dawn when it is possible, and moving the time for cooking out of the peak hours.

This is good news, but unquestionably there are potentialities to be exploited, both in the state sector as in the residential one. That was the claim of Luis Sisto Mora, vice president of the Provincial Administration Entity, who explained that the control for seizing the energetic carriers takes particular analysis and that September demonstrated there are reticencies that underlie in a top priority task.

When we talk about the possibility of saving more, it is not something subjective, it implies an important component of reorganization of the productive flows, in the early storage of milk to reach the industry and be processed without further setbacks in the peak hours.

The agriculture, within the shortage of energetic resources, must model the variant that assures the transference of animals to slaughter in the meat combined and fulfill the meat deliveries for commercialization.

The Fishing Company Camagüey (Pescacam), has avoided affectations with diesel and does not give up, when receiving this energy resource, to concentrating the catches in the most productive areas, without neglecting the cooperation work with the dairy industry. That is how it has been done with the sea products moved to the province for their industrial processing.

A lot more can be made in the homes, it all depends on the families keeping an strict surveillance of the recommendations that, surely, provide results favoring the home and the economy.

Camagüey started October with a demand plan of 120 MW for the noon peak (from 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.) and of 162 MW for the night one (from 5:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.). Adjusting to both numbers depends on the contribution of the state entities and homes for avoiding blackouts.

In an article published in the website of the Cuban Presidency, because of the current circumstances that faces the country, Díaz-Canel wrote: “The situation has gone up until today without turning to the blackouts. The side of those who love and build have made it possible”.

The workers and the people in the neighborhoods have the responsibility to keep that idea expressed by our president, of not turning to the blackouts, all the way through the energetic emergency and also after it.