Offering Major Election Year Promise, Mapp Says WAPA Bills Will Be Cut In Half By 2019
- Ernice Gilbert
- May 20, 2018
ST. CROIX -- Governor Kenneth Mapp offered up a major promise to Virgin Islanders during his campaign launch event Friday on St. Croix, stating during his speech at his campaign headquarters across from Cost-U-Less that in 12 to 18 months residents will see a 50 percent decrease in their electricity bills because of a number of changes -- supported by hundreds of millions of federal dollars -- coming to the Virgin Islands Water and Power Authority (WAPA). "We are telling you without dispute, that in another year to 18 months your power bill will come down by half," Mr. Mapp announced. The governor said he did not make the remark based on politics, "But because $572 million have been set aside for the modernization of the Water and Power Authority. New generating systems, wind-produced power, more solar, lines underground." "My friends the point that I want to make here is that we're focusing on our recovery, we're focusing on the expansion of our economy, we're focusing ...
