…Islands by Christmas. Here's the latest update. ELECTRIC SYSTEM WAPA’s reconstruction and restoration crews continue to make steady progress across the territory with service being restored to a growing number of customers each da…
…water restoration update. ELECTRIC SYSTEM On St. Thomas Tuesday, WAPA’s reconstruction and restoration crews energized additional customers in Hospital Ground, Estate Thomas and along the main route on Feeder 7C from the Cassi Hil…
…work, bringing the total to more than 500 so far, according to WAPA's latest restoration update. The utility's goal is to restore power to 90 percent of the territory by Christmas, a projection that has not changed since its annou…
…as some customers on the main roadway to Cancryn Junior High School. WAPA said 250 linemen will arrive on Friday, October 27 bringing the total off-island personnel to more than 500 persons in the Virgin Islands assisting with the…
…Whether the funds will be provided remains to be seen. Below, find WAPA's latest power and potable water restoration update: ELECTRIC SYSTEM The first wave of off-island linemen contracted by WAPA to aid in its electrical restorat…
…Governor Osbert Potter, members of the Governor's Cabinet, senators, WAPA Executive Director Julio Rhymer, WAPA Board Chairwoman Elizabeth Armstrong and former WAPA Director Hugo Hodge, Jr. were among those in attendance for the n…
…completed since Hurricane Maria impacted the territory a week ago, WAPA estimates St. Thomas has experienced about 15% restoration while St. Croix has seen restoration totals of approximately 10%. St. Croix has about 4 megawatts o…
…six months, with an additional six-month extension available were WAPA to need it. The extension comes as WAPA's outstanding balance of over $24 million to Vitol has yet to be paid, which has forced Vitol to withhold propane suppl…
…alone on the side of the Queen Mary Highway (Centerline Road) near WAPA's location in the Sunny Isle Annex. The protest begins are 7:00 a.m. and runs until 3:00 p.m. on Wednesday, Mr. Fahie said. Multiple radio stations have commi…
…taken on a tour of the Virgin Islands Water and Power Authority’s (WAPA) liquefied petroleum Gas (LPG) conversion project site here, and has ok'd the territory's waterays as "suitable for LPG marine traffic," a press release WAPA …
…permit from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), which WAPA filed for in December of 2013, that gives the semi-autonomous entity the authority to move ahead with marine work at the Richmond, Christiansted plant to both receiv…
…bonds, series 2007A, 2012B, 2012C at 'BB-'. A “BB” rating means WAPA is less vulnerable to non-payment than other speculative bond issues in the near-term, but that it faces major ongoing uncertainties or exposure to adverse busin…
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