2024-03-02 23:58:17
Photo: Roy Leyra | CN360
Text: Hugo León
A look at the streets of the main Cuban cities is enough to verify the increase in the number of electric vehicles circulating in the country. Faced with this reality, the Cuban State takes on another challenge: charging so many vehicles without adding consumption to its already saturated electrical network.
The National Electroenergy System (SEN) is experiencing a difficult situation, and therefore the alternative that the country chose is to promote the establishment of a national charging system for electric vehicles with photovoltaic solar energy.
As the Minister of Transportation, Eduardo Rodríguez Dávila, recently explained, this is part of a strategy for the gradual modification of the energy matrix in the automotive sector.
The head of that sector commented to the island’s state media that “we cannot continue incorporating electric vehicles if the generation of energy for recharging is not ensured with the use of renewable sources.”
In that sense, the Ministry of Transportation (Mitrans), together with several Cuban industries, are developing the first national national electric charging stations.
The project, called Tecxol, aims to allow Mitrans to place photovoltaic solar energy stations to charge electric vehicles in places such as airport, bus and train terminals and also in the taxi bases of electric routes before the end of this year.
This platform is developed by the European company ElectroAir, a manufacturer of solar inverters, and the Information Technology Company for Defense (Xetid), from Cuba, which will be responsible for the IT solution that will manage the charging stations on the island. .
According to statements to Granma by Yosvani Hernández, director of Digital Technology at and charging stations, which will allow establishing a kilowatt/hour exchange rate.
On the other hand, the manager highlighted that ElectroAir also has a link with the industry for a technology transfer process, something that in the long term will allow the manufacturing of solar inverters and electric chargers in our country.
If this comes to fruition, “it would give us technological sovereignty, that is, we would have the hardware and software, so we would provide a 100 percent Cuban comprehensive solution,” he stated.