…and Power Authority's purchase of Vitol infrastructure with the WAPA plants on St. Croix and St. Thomas. In a release also on Wednesdday, VIHFA said the Substantial Amendment approval is the first step in accessing $145 million in…
Virgin Islands residents with water service from WAPA may soon see an increase in their water bills. That’s because the Public Services Commission provisionally approved a new Levelized Energy Adjustment Clause (LEAC) rate for wat…
…by the Water and Power Authority have been agreed, according to WAPA Executive Director Andrew Smith. “The Vitol liability is the single largest liability for WAPA,” Mr. Smith said at Thursday’s meeting of WAPA’s newly reconfigure…
…which among other things sought to establish a minimum criteria for WAPA's Governing Board while changing the number of its members. The measure also sought to change the number of members of the Governing Board constituting quoru…
…in office, the governor has said, pointing to expenses related to WAPA, which the government has been buttressing with millions of dollars on a monthly basis, and paid obligations tied to tax refunds, retroactive wage payments and…
…General Rae Oliver Davis should "independently investigate" WAPA for "this potential waste of taxpayer's resources." The congressmen appear to take issue with the four Wartsila generating units that were procured by WAPA in 2020 t…
…overruns of more than $113 million and gross incompetence by both WAPA management and the board. Yet even as a key member of the Bryan administration was part of the board for more than two years during the time the project was ap…
…keep the authority operational. The two most costly components of a WAPA power bill is the electric energy charge and the LEAC. For example, if your residential power bill is $571, your over 250 kilowatt hour consumption would cos…
…who is white, had not received a response at time of writing. WAPA responded Saturday evening, stating that the comments of Mr. Kragel do not reflect the authority's position. "Expressions by WAPA employees on privately-owned soci…
…in electrical rates effective the July billing cycle. According to WAPA, the approval represents an approximate 1.5 cent reduction in the per kilowatt hour rate for residential customers, and a similar reduction for commercial rat…
…Islands Water and Power Authority following a default in payments. WAPA is said to owe APR millions of dollars. "APR Energy has been reliably and successfully providing the citizens of St. Thomas with electricity for over eight ye…
…power demand. The meeting was held to solicit public comment, but WAPA came under fire from Senator Alicia Barnes, the sole lawmaker to attend the public meeting on St. Croix, for what Ms. Barnes said was WAPA's lack of preparedne…
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