…the cost of the Levelized Energy Adjustment Clause (LEAC). She urged WAPA officials in an April 20 letter to revise the authority's most recent LEAC filing for July 1 through December 31, 2020, to reflect the steady decline in the…
Much like the V.I. Water and Power Authority (WAPA), the Puerto Rican government industrial development agency lost more than $2.6 million after falling for an email phishing scam, the Associated Press reported Thursday. The AP ci…
…in advance of the V.I. Public Services Commission (PSC) vote on WAPA’s latest bid for a utility rate increase. The V.I. Alliance for Consumer Justice petition urges PSC board members to reject the Water and Power Authority bid for…
…all of St. Thomas and St. John over the past two days was because WAPA resorted to using a rental generating unit known to be an unreliable source of power. “The performance of Unit 26, a 25-megawatt rental unit, has been question…
…hearing on Thursday came two days after Senate lawmakers subjected WAPA officials to 12 hours of intense questioning during a legislative session in which utility officials acknowledged systemic failures in financial management, a…
…the department's social media platform show backhoes clearing roads. WAPA: Restoration work ongoing in St. Thomas/St. John; St. Croix fully restored; potable water service returning to normal See which WAPA feeder you're on here. …
…Randolph Harley Power Plant has resulted in a district wide outage, WAPA has made known via an alert. The authority said the problems initially affected a few feeders but later escalated to a major service interruption. Plant pers…
…affect the territory's economy. The chamber's statement comes as WAPA gets ready to petition the Public Services Commission at a meeting today in St. Thomas seeking a base rate increase of 3 cents, which, if approved, would send U…
…ensuring that we don’t see a tremendous spike in electrical rates at WAPA, which could rise as high as 54 cents kW/hr negatively impacting the budgets of both residential and commercial customers. The government’s use of these fun…
…board of the Virgin Islands Water and Power Authority authorized WAPA entering into a shared operations and maintenance agreement with Wartsila Caribbean for the operation of three new generating units at the Randolph Harley Power…
…the Virgin Islands Water and Power Authority announced Wednesday. WAPA said the final two pumps were initialized at the Contentment site on Wednesday joining one that was activated there on Tuesday, and two others, at Concordia an…
ST. CROIX -- Increasing numbers of WAPA potable water customers from mid-island to west end St. Croix, including Frederiksted town, are seeing a normalization of service, the authority said in a release issued Tuesday. With two ad…
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