STJ power ourage
STJ power ourage
Power went out about 2a this morning (at least in the Chocolate Hole area). Anyone on-island got any power or is this an island-wide outage?
- mrscaptainjay
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STT has been on and off all night also so it's not just STJ. WAPA has a unit down so the system is over stressed.
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- stjohnjulie
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WAPA has Unit 18 down awaiting parts - this is a 21.8 MegaWatt generator - without it they can barely cover normal usage -- as the temperature is so warm many people are using the AC and of course the schools,Govt. offices and stores and many of the resorts and condo complexes ar designed to run with AC so the system will continue to be overstressed as the infrastructure continues to expand and build.
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3 of WAPA's 7 generators are down for repair or regular maintenance - one of the remaining 4 is operating sub-par - they cannot produce the normal 80 MegaWatt draw to run STT-STJ so will be on rotating outages for the remainder of this weekend and into mid week next week - there are some stateside engineers coming down to assist the local employees try and get one or more of the non-workings units back online.It is a grim foreboding of the future capability of WAPA to provide enough power to our Islands. They are currently in negotiation with Puerto Rico to provide a connection to their grid but that is not a short term project expected to be agreed to or even completed soon.
Friends who live there also told me that they had a power outage in the mid of June. They already thought about a power rental in order to bypass the period without power. The best solution for them would be to rent a generator. As far as I know they haven't done it yet but if such a outage will occur more often they will definitely rent or even buy a generator.