ST. THOMAS -- Personnel at WAPA’s Randolph Harley Power Plant worked into the early morning hours of Saturday to restore electrical service to the St. Thomas – St. John district following a failure of Unit 23 and a subsequent casc…
…repair work on Company Street, above, which has been badly mangled WAPA piping work -- Phase I of the Christiansted Waterline Rehab Project. St. Croix senators have long complained about the substandard conditions of Company Stree…
…– In a letter sent to Virgin Islands Water and Power Authority (WAPA) Executive Director Julio Rhymer on Thursday, Senate President Neville James inquired about the status of contracts executed between the authority and its contra…
…benefits other than pensions, requires that entities such as WAPA reserve for retiree medical plan liability. “To accomplish this mandate, WAPA has elected to create a Voluntary Employee Beneficiary Association (VEBA), which is a …
…near eight-hour long electric service interruption, a press release WAPA issued late Tuesday has revealed. The island-wide service interruption began shortly after 4 a.m. and resulted from human error during fuel operations. “We i…
…The second agenda item before the board was a request to authorize WAPA to consent to a change in control of St. Croix Solar, LLC and St. Croix Solar II, LLC, to Gardner, STX Solar, LLC. The item relates to Power Purchase Agreemen…
…I don't have customers, I don't have employees, and I can't pay my WAPA bill. "There's always a delay in every change," Yusuf continued. "If the vendor doesn't pass on the savings to me, I can't pass it on to the customers. Now, i…
…to the board of the Virgin Islands Water and Power Authority (WAPA). Pemberton's local radio stations include WDHP -- 1620 AM, WAXJ -- 103.5 FM, and St. Kitts station, 90.7 FM. He also owns other businesses. Shirlene Taylor was al…
…Jamaica Power Service are of a significantly smaller gauge than what WAPA would employ for the same purpose. He explained that households in Jamaica typically consume less electricity than those in the Virgin Islands, and thus pla…
An islandwide power outage on St. Croix prompted WAPA to begin investigating the cause while Juan F. Luis Hospital reported disruptions to its phone lines and advised residents to call 911 for emergencies as restoration efforts co…
…outage on Wed. night left both St. Thomas and St. John in the dark. WAPA cited excessive demand during high heat and the failure of Unit 15 as contributing factors, while noting restoration efforts are underway without a set compl…
…lower the electric LEAC rate from 22.22 to 17 cents per kWh, after WAPA filed a petition calling the cut irresponsible and warning of irreversible harm if the reduction were implemented.
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