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CPA: No free power to airport residents, tenants
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Posted on May 11 2009
The Commonwealth Ports Authority chief has vehemently denied a rumor circulating in local blogs that the agency will be providing free power to its tenants and residents within the airport area.
CPA executive director Efrain F. Camacho was reacting to a statement of board vice chair Kiyu Villagomez, who had alerted CPA to a number of blogs that mentioned free utilities at the airport area.
Camacho said the Commonwealth Utilities Corp. is actually “double charging” both CPA and its tenants because whenever CPA turns on its generator, the power goes to its tenants’ meters and registers as if the power being used is CUC power.
“We found out that when the generator is on… it also supplies power to the tenants’ meter,” he said, thus tenants are also being billed by CUC for the use of “power” from the emergency grid.
He said the utilities corporation seems to be making “double” charges to both CPA and its tenants by reading and billing both their meters.
CPA, he said, wants CUC to read only the agency’s master meter so that billings to the tenants would stop.
Camacho recently met with CUC director Antonio Muña to discuss the possibility of a memorandum of agreement between the agencies. The MOU would allow CPA to bill and collect for all tenants connected to the CPA’s emergency power grid.
Camacho wants the MOU to start on June 1, in time for the installation of a new line and a generator for the emergency grid.
