{"id":61136,"date":"2018-03-05T21:46:47","date_gmt":"2018-03-05T21:46:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/viconsortium.com\/?p=61136"},"modified":"2018-03-05T21:58:23","modified_gmt":"2018-03-05T21:58:23","slug":"cause-of-island-wide-outage-in-stt-stj-district-being-determined-wapa-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wp.viconsortium.com\/?p=61136","title":{"rendered":"Cause Of Island-Wide Outage In STT-STJ District Being Determined, WAPA Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\"><span class=\"\">ST. THOMAS &#8212; WAPA plant personnel are working with APR Energy to determine the cause of two generating unit\u2019s tripping off-line Monday morning, leaving the St. Thomas &#8211; St. John district without electrical service for at least 30 minutes, the utility said Monday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><span class=\"\">\u201cOur plant personnel are in discussions with officials of the company which owns both leased units to obtain a full understanding of why the two units tripped simultaneously at about 7:45 a.m.,\u201d said Lawrence J. Kupfer, WAPA executive director.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><span class=\"\">Two other generating units were brought on-line to facilitate the restoration of service. \u201cWe began restoring customers at 8:15 a.m. by first providing service to critical facilities including the hospital and airport.\u00a0 Shortly after 10 a.m., all schools in the district were restored, and we achieved full restoration to all customers by 11:28 a.m.,\u201d Kupfer said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><span class=\"\">The executive director met with Plant Superintendent John Woodson III and other employees based at the Randolph Harley power plant to not only introduce himself but to obtain a good understanding of plant operations.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><span class=\"\">\u201cI also wanted to thank these individuals for their dedication and commitment to WAPA and to express my gratitude for their efforts since the hurricanes of 2017,&#8221; Mr. Kupter said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><span class=\"\">Over the next few weeks, Kupfer will be meeting employees and directors in all of WAPA\u2019s operational and administrative areas, on all three islands. Kupfer assumed the leadership of the V.I. Water &amp; Power Authority on March 1, 2018. Monday was his first day on St. Thomas.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ST. THOMAS &#8212; WAPA plant personnel are working with APR Energy to determine the cause of two generating unit\u2019s tripping off-line Monday morning, leaving the St. Thomas &#8211; St. John district without electrical service for at least 30 minutes, the utility said Monday. \u201cOur plant personnel are in discussions with officials of the company which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":16124,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[628,191,147],"tags":[121,83],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Cause Of Island-Wide Outage In STT-STJ District Being Determined, WAPA Says - V.I. 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