Cubasolar, the magnitude of its projects

 HAVANA, Cuba, January 2 (ACN) The Cuban Society for the Promotion of Renewable Energy Sources and Environmental Respect (Cubasolar) confirmed that in 2025 it maintained its vitality in the management, monitoring, and execution of its international collaboration projects.

One of these projects, with the Solidarity for Development and Peace (SODePAZ) group, has already concluded. It focused on supporting renewable energy sources (RES) for municipal decentralization in Jesús Menéndez (Las Tunas).

The project contributes to building a sustainable and resilient local food industry in that municipality of Las Tunas, focusing on agro-industrial and circular economy capacities (Phase I), Luis Bérriz Pérez, the only president of Cubasolar since its creation 30 years ago, told the Cuban News Agency. He added that it is financed by the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID).

The Solar Energy for Life Project continues, he commented, expanding the energy sustainability of the Finlay Institute of Vaccines with the multi-phase installation of a 302.5 kWp grid-connected photovoltaic system at Vaccine Plant 3.

He noted that with the first phase (127 kWp installed) now complete, a second phase (173 kWp) is underway, and the purchase of resources through the UN Development Programme is being tendered to help synchronize photovoltaic systems, promoted by its Small Grants Programme, with the national electricity grid.

According to Bérriz Pérez, the project envisions connecting eight small photovoltaic parks (113 kWp) in six municipalities across the country to the national electricity grid.

The projects "Women of Holguín for Agroecological Leadership for Food Sovereignty," by the NGO Solidaridad Luxembourg-Cuba, are in various stages of management, coordination, and approval.

These projects aim to increase the productive capacity of systems led by women in five municipalities of Holguín province by using renewable energy sources (RES) to develop agroecological farming techniques.

Also underway is the project "Support for Responsive Energy Sources in Municipal Decentralization in Jesús Menéndez: Capacities in Agro-industries, Circular Economy, and Local Energy Management" (SODEpAZ), funded by the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID).

This project seeks to expand the application of RES in relation to agro-industrial production and basic public services for the population.

From a public relations perspective, Cubasolar participates in activities convened by the Environment and Sustainable Development and Climate Change Commissions of the Cuban Association of the UN.

Cubasolar also participates in the forum of the Society Against the Blockade. and at the 30th United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, and the People's Convention, held in November in Belém, Brazil.