The Commonwealth Utilities Corp. has 21 water wells on Saipan that are offline and most of these are due to chemical contaminants, according to CUC executive director Gary P. Camacho. CUC said that both perflourooctane sulfonates, or PFOS, and perfluorooctanoic acid, or PFOA, are...

The Commonwealth Utilities Corp. cut electric power to the casino in Garapan and at Imperial Pacific International (CNMI) LLC’s office at Vestcor on Capital Hill on Tuesday for non-payment of bills. Power will be reconnected after IPI pays its bill, said CUC Gary P. Camacho...

The Fuel Adjustment Charge for the month of May went down to $0.08323 per kilowatt-hour effective May 11, 2020. In an advisory yesterday, the Commonwealth Utilities Corp. said that Mobil Oil Mariana Islands, Inc. notified it yesterday that there has been a decrease in the average...

The Commonwealth Utilities Corp.’s non-revenue water loss on Saipan went up again to as high as 70.04% in March from February’s 61.83%. In his report to the CUC board of directors last Friday, CUC executive director Gary P. Camacho disclosed that they detected leaks in the power...