The Minister of Electric Energy, Rolando Alcalá, has again put a date on a promise Venezuelans have been hearing for more than a decade: the recovery of the National Electric System (SEN). According to the official, in the last quarter of 2026, 1,300 megawatts will come online, distributed among one unit of 600 MW at the Centro power plant, seven units totaling 500 MW for Zulia, and the remainder distributed nationwide.
For PitbullChain, this isn’t just an infrastructure story. Each power outage of eight, twelve, or sixteen hours translates into P2P operations failing, merchants losing liquidity, silent point-of-sale terminals, and an exchange rate that wakes up only. The useful question isn’t how many megawatts they announced, but how many will actually arrive and how quickly it feels in the pocket of the person who buys and sells USDT every day.
📊 What they said, no frills
Alcala said that the rollout will make it possible to «stabilize the crisis» and reduce the interruptions that hit hardest the country’s central-western areas. «In the coming days,» the Centro plant unit should begin operations—the complex that supplies much of that region—while Zulia, the state most affected by the outages, would receive its seven additional units.
The minister attributed the worsening power outages to a rebound in economic activity, to high temperatures caused by El Niño, and to the June earthquakes, which, he said, delayed repair plans. He also stated that «this year» the country has had access to spare parts and original components from the world’s leading manufacturers.
For his part, Corpoelec president Juan Fernández talked about transmission works, including the expansion of a Centro plant substation with an autotransformer that should come into service at the end of November to send power to the Andes. He also mentioned the Machango solar park in Zulia, planned for next year, and the reform of the electric service law to open the door to «integration of the public and private sectors». He recalled agreements with General Electric, Siemens, and Impsa.
The uncomfortable detail: the announcement comes right as there are almost daily protests in several regions over outages that in some cases exceed sixteen hours. The opposition and experts insist that the problem is not the sanctions, but corruption and lack of maintenance. We’re only adding the detail we can measure: the market.
📈 Outage and spread: the connection nobody wants to see
When the power goes out, it’s not just the refrigerator that fails. The router goes down, the point of sale goes down, the bank app goes down—and with them, the ability of a P2P merchant to release an order on time. In a market where a deal is won or lost in minutes, going offline isn’t an inconvenience: it’s money.
We’ve seen it happen again and again. During long outages, many users rush to look for cash because digital banking doesn’t work. This pressure shows up in the parallel market, and USDT usually trades with an extra premium during the darkest hours, simply because there are fewer counterparties connected and more people needing shelter. The spread widens, buy ads disappear, and the few that remain online set their own terms.
🔎 Zulia and the central-west: the most sensitive points
It’s no coincidence that the regions with the most failures are also active P2P hubs. Maracaibo, Barquisimeto, Maracay, and much of the central-western axis concentrate merchants who move USDT/VES every day. If Zulia truly receives its 500 MW and the Centro plant its 600 MW, those are precisely the areas where an improvement in market fluidity would be most noticeable: more hours online, more orders posted, and less need to improvise emergency prices.
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