{"id":313597,"date":"2024-11-22T18:16:11","date_gmt":"2024-11-22T23:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/?p=313597"},"modified":"2024-11-22T18:19:58","modified_gmt":"2024-11-22T23:19:58","slug":"renova-island-of-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/cuba\/economy\/entrepreneurship-in-cuba\/renova-island-of-light\/","title":{"rendered":"Renova, island of light"},"content":{"rendered":"

It is not difficult to hear about Renova. You only have to look at the Plaza de los Trabajadores, in the heart of the city of Camag\u00fcey, on any given blackout night, to find out about the existence of this leading enterprise in photovoltaic energy.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWhen the city is unlit, there is an island of light,\u201d says with childish haughtiness Rusbel \u00c1lvarez Figueredo, a specialist in institutional communication and logistics at Renova.<\/span><\/p>\n

Installed with the collaboration of the local Office of the Historian, the photovoltaic system provides lighting to a colonial area where history and tourism meet in Santa Mar\u00eda del Puerto del Pr\u00edncipe.<\/span><\/p>\n

The itinerant township was founded in 1514 by the sea, in Nuevitas, hence its name, which later remained as a testimony to its marine origin given the Mediterranean nature of its final settlement, in the navel of the current province.<\/span><\/p>\n

Dominated in its center by a large century-old ceiba tree and around it the Church of Nuestra Se\u00f1ora de la Merced, the square has no competitors as it is illuminated and allows, besieged by masses of shadows, the contemplation, sometimes spectral, of old buildings, restaurants, cafes and shops in the midst of power outages that can last more than half the day.<\/span><\/p>\n