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Fitch Withdraws WAPA Bond Ratings Due to Information Shortage
Fitch Ratings' withdrawal of WAPA bond ratings reflects concerns over insufficient information
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Health
EPA Recommends WAPA Implement Outreach Program For Customers Before Lifting "Do Not Drink" Advisory For St. Croix
…identifies various lead-containing brass plumbing components in WAPA's system and other factors like drought and low pressure as lead sources
Federal
HUD Approves VIHFA Amendment, Signaling Potential Release of $145M to Purchase Vitol Infrastructure at WAPA Plants
…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…
WAPA
PSC Approves Hike in Water LEAC Provided WAPA Complies With Regulatory Requirements
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…
Community Center
Buyout Agreement Reached Between Vitol and WAPA; Utility Hopes Territorial Line of Credit Will Facilitate Process
…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…
Government
Judge Orders Law Changing Composition of WAPA Board be Implemented; Senators Call for Immediate Adherence
…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…
Business
Government is Cash-Strapped, Bryan Says. 'We've Been Diverting a Considerable Amount of Money to WAPA'
…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…
Disaster Recovery
Plaskett Slams Congressmen Who Issued Fallacy-Laden Letter Calling For WAPA Investigation, Calls Letter 'Propaganda'
…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…
Government
No Statement Yet From Gov't House on Scathing WAPA Audit Even as Key Administration Figure Was Part of WAPA Board During Propane Conversation Deal
…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…
WAPA
Power Bills Set to Increase From July Billing as PSC Grants WAPA LEAC Hike
…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…
Race Relations
Virgin Islanders Create Petition to Remove WAPA Deputy Legal Counsel After Derogatory Black Lives Matter Remark; WAPA Responds
…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…
WAPA
PSC Reduces WAPA Electric Rate by 1.5 Cents, Bringing Cost Down for Residential Customers to 39 and 41 Cents Per Kilowatt Hour, and 45 Cents for Businesses
…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…