WAPA Announces Tentative Emergency Rotation Schedule For Sections Of St. Thomas – St. John Feeders

From WAPA:

ST. THOMAS — The Virgin Islands Water and Power Authority has issued a tentative electrical service interruption schedule for small sections of St. Thomas for Thursday evening. These outages will only be required if the demand for electricity surpasses the power generating capacity of the power plant. The shortfall of power generation capacity is a result of two generators undergoing repairs following weekend incidents.

Plant personnel completed repairs on Unit 23 and is expected to undergo testing later this evening. Work continued Thursday to repair a breaker on Unit 15.

If necessary, rotating service interruptions will occur at two hours intervals, and will be conducted in a manner to ensure service is maintained by as many customers as possible. Additionally, public notice will be given of feeders selected for rotation, via VI Alert, the WAPA website and social media platforms such as Facebook.

Thursday evening’s tentative rotation schedule is as follows:

6:30 pm – 8:30 pm – sections of feeder 7A
8:30 pm – 10:30 pm – sections of feeder 6A
10:30 pm – 12:30 am – sections feeder 7C, 8B, 9C
12:30 am – 2:30 am – sections of feeder 7D

The Authority apologizes for any inconvenience caused by these emergency interruptions and will do our best to minimize the inconvenience to customers.