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Energy & power plants · La Habana

Karpowership Floating Powerships (Cuba fleet)

Floating powership (barge-mounted generation)

🟡 Joint ventureℹ️ Atlas — info only
Scale
Up to ~420 MW across the fleet at peak (e.g. Suheyla Sultan ~240 MW; contract ~300 MW)
Status
Highly volatile — at peak (2023-24) up to 8 Turkish barges off Havana, Mariel and Santiago supplied ~a quarter of Cuba's power. Most departed by May 2025 over unpaid fuel/operating costs; one returned to Havana April 2026. Opportunity is large but financing is the bottleneck.
Sector
Energy & power plants
Province
La Habana
Coordinates
23.150, -82.334
Layer
Layer 2 · Atlas
Notes
Operated by Karpowership (Karadeniz Holding, Türkiye) under contract to UNE/MINEM; vessels are leased and mobile, not Cuban-owned. Coordinates approximate (Havana Bay anchorage).
Controlling entity
Unión Eléctrica (UNE)

National electric utility under the Ministry of Energy and Mines. Owns the thermoelectric fleet, the China-backed solar program and wind farms. State-owned and embargo-restricted, though not itself on the CRL/SDN.

Sources: U.S.-Cuba Trade & Economic Council · Maritime Executive · elTOQUE · CiberCuba