{"id":61306,"date":"2018-03-12T10:30:05","date_gmt":"2018-03-12T10:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/viconsortium.com\/?p=61306"},"modified":"2018-03-12T10:30:05","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T10:30:05","slug":"power-restored-in-stt-stj-district-after-island-wide-outage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wp.viconsortium.com\/?p=61306","title":{"rendered":"Power Restored In STT-STJ District After Island-Wide Outage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\"><span class=\"\">ST. THOMAS &#8212; Electrical service to residential customers in the St. Thomas \u2013 St. John district was restored at approximately 10:30 a.m. Sunday, two hours after a pair of generating units tripped at the Randolph Harley power plant, WAPA has made known.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><span class=\"\">\u201cA combustion system issue with Unit 25 resulted in that unit falling off-line at approximately 8:15 a.m. The unit\u2019s failure had a cascading effect on another unit that was on-line at the time. This series of events led to a district-wide service interruption,\u201d said WAPA Executive Director Lawrence J. Kupfer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><span class=\"\">Plant personnel and engineers from APR Energy, the owners of the two tripped units, worked to restore one of the units and another of WAPA\u2019s generators, Unit 15, facilitating the restoration of service to all customers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><span class=\"\">Kupfer said the two units that tripped on Sunday morning also failed on the morning of March 5, resulting in a district-wide service interruption as well. Engineers from APR Energy have preliminarily confirmed the cause of that interruption to be issues with the source of electricity which provides power to the two generating unit\u2019s auxiliary components.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><span class=\"\">WAPA is currently leasing three generating units from Texas-based APR Energy to bridge a gap in generation capacity until such time that new, more-reliable and energy- efficient generators are added to WAPA\u2019s generation fleet. The Authority is under contract with Wartsila North America to design, build, and engineer several new generating units over the next two to three years. Three of these new units are expected to be commissioned before the end of this year.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ST. THOMAS &#8212; Electrical service to residential customers in the St. Thomas \u2013 St. John district was restored at approximately 10:30 a.m. Sunday, two hours after a pair of generating units tripped at the Randolph Harley power plant, WAPA has made known. \u201cA combustion system issue with Unit 25 resulted in that unit falling off-line [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":33136,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[191,147,5237],"tags":[4094,1773],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Power Restored In STT-STJ District After Island-Wide Outage - V.I. 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