Batteries Disappear from Power Substations

Batteries Disappear from Power Substations / Moises Leonardo Rodriguez
Posted on February 18, 2014

Artemisa, Cuba - The theft of batteries at five electrical substations
in Artemisa province, at the risk of the thieves' lives, was
acknowledged by the weekly paper El Artemiseño, the official Communist
Party organ in the province.

The batteries stolen in 2013 were from circuit breakers, called NULEC,
in substations at Mariel, San Antonio de los Baños, Caimito and
Artemisa, according to the report of the journalist Yailín Alicia
Chacón, in the 11-17 February edition of the paper.

These batteries are for electric bicycles, musical equipment, and as
back-ups (Uninterruptible Power Supplies) for personal computers, which
are all very expensive in the State market. For example, the cost of an
electric bike battery is 2,875 Cuban pesos (about $120 USD), and they
only last about two years.

The director general of the provincial Power Company, Martín de la
Concepción Cordero, acknowledged that, "There is still no solution for
such outrages and unscrupulous attitudes of people who enter our
facilities to take these batteries."

This new type of theft is added to the theft of the aluminum cross beams
of the high tension towers, traffic signs, railroad ties and others that
endanger the lives of the perpetrators of the crime and/or third parties
after their execution.

Cubanet, 17 February 2014, Moises Leonardo Rodriguez

corrientemartiana2004@gmail.com

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