St. John Waste-to-Energy Project Awaits Agreements from WAPA, WMA to Move Forward

The company seeking to build a waste-to-energy plant on St. John is waiting on the Water and Power Authority and Waste Management Authority to finalize agreements necessary for the project to move forward. When representatives of Advanced Sustainable Technologies appeared before the PSC in June of last year, CEO Dan Levin said that forward movement on the pilot project depended on securing a power purchase agreement from WAPA and a supply agreement from the WMA. At the time, a draft agreement had already been received from WAPA, and he expected that it would be signed within the next few weeks. During Tuesday's update, Mr. Levin acknowledged that the agreement was still not signed. However, he believes that the process is almost complete. “In our eyes, we're 90% but obviously WAPA needs to answer that as well,” he said. AST was ready to sign the draft proposal currently on the table, he said, and all that was needed was to close out the process. “It can happen in one conversation, or...