{"id":121190,"date":"2008-03-26T20:38:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-26T20:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/af7163e0-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e"},"modified":"2008-03-26T20:38:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-26T20:38:00","slug":"af7163f0-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/af7163f0-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e\/","title":{"rendered":"Rotating outages, engine repairs continue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saipan continued to experience rotating outages yesterday due to ongoing mechanical repairs on Engine No. 5 at Power Plant 1.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday\u2019s high temperatures exacerbated the situation, resulting in increased power demand as people turned on their air conditioning units. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe power plants were not capable of generating the required electrical power to adequately meet the demand, therefore load shedding was required,\u201d said the Commonwealth Utilities Corp. in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, water services will be affected as the load-shedding schedule continues.<\/p>\n<p>As of press time, there was no word from CUC as to when it expects to finish the repair work on the power engine.<\/p>\n<p>CUC said that, as soon as it is capable of providing sufficient electrical generation to meet the island demand, the rotating outage schedule would no longer be required. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis assumes that no additional engine problems occur during this emergency repair and the [rotating outage] schedule may be altered by CUC as required,\u201d it said.[B][I] (CUC)[\/I][\/B]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saipan continued to experience rotating outages yesterday due to ongoing mechanical repairs on Engine No. 5 at Power Plant 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}