ST. CROIX — The Virgin Islands Water and Power Authority said through a press release issued this morning that the power outage that occurred at approximately 5:55 a.m. on Wednesday, was caused by the loss of unit 20 at the Richmond power plant, which resulted in a service interruption to four feeders, as unit 20 was being operated in combined cycle with generating Unit 10.
The affected feeders included: 2A, 4A, 6B and 9B. Plant operations have successfully restarted Unit 20 and should begin to pick up service to the four feeders shortly, according to the release.
Unit 19 is also on line at the present time.
Feature Image: WAPA’s Richmond power plant.
Image Credit: VIC.
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