By NNN-Prensa Latina
Cienfuegos, Cuba : Cuban Vice President Carlos Lage extolled in this central southern city that the island cut its fossil fuel consumption in the last three years, noted for high economic growth.
Precisely when the country s economy is growing, diesel consumption fell by seven percent and gasoline by 13 percent, informed Lage after a tour Saturday of Cienfuegos energy facilities.
The also executive secretary of the Council of Ministers attended the inauguration of a power plant with a generating capacity of 20 megawatts in the locality of Cruces and learned about the modernisation project of the thermoelectric power plant of this city.
Later, he checked the state of works at the oil refinery Camilo Cienfuegos, investment by a Cuba-Venezuela joint venture, which will begin processing 65 thousand barrels per day in the first stage by the end of next December.
Lage said the energy revolution -government strategy in this sector- more than a task is a concept developed by President Fidel Castro of a permanent nature.
Energy revolution is forever, as there is always a need to achieve less fuel consumption, he reiterated.
About the achievements made since the adoption of that policy (end of 2004) he mentioned first the elimination of blackouts, besides the generation of electricity with less fuel consumption and greater efficiency in the Cuban power industry.
In that sense, he confirmed the strategy of adding new units to the system, as the one inaugurated Saturday in Cruces that consumes only 128 grams of fuel oil per kilowatt of electricity and at the same time substitutes two less efficient plants that will go out of the system.
He argued that the energy revolution reaches also other sectors of the economy as transportation, where advances are made to obtain more effective controls as the satellite (GPS) in the main movement of fuel.
Another variant put in place in that field makes the big elaboration centers assume the distribution of their own production, indicated Lage.