Sen. Paul Manglona has asked why the Commonwealth Utilities Corp. is not taking the excess power generators from Tinian as he also disclosed that Guam is offering hands to assist NMI of its power crisis.<\/p>\n
During Friday\u2019s session at the Senate chamber, Manglona said Tinian has 10 megawatts of excess capacity from generators that are owned by CUC through the build-operate transfer contract with Telesource.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t understand why we cannot bring that to Saipan so that we can have at least Aggreko 15 megawatts, PMIC 14 megawatts and now the Tinian generators at 10 megawatts or for a total 39 megawatts solid reliable power on Saipan,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
The Rota senator said these daily outages on the island should be stopped.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe live on Dandan at three to six hours of outages a night is just unreasonable,\u201d he pointed out.<\/p>\n
Manglona said based on his conversation with the company on Tinian, they can bring the generators for free, set them up at any locations where CUC wants them to put.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is not the first time that I brought this up. Four months ago I brought this up,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Manglona also stated that he received a call from the acting governor of Guam, extending assistance regarding power situation.<\/p>\n
He said he already informed CUC executive director Tony Muna about Guam\u2019s offer to help.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey are willing to provide spare parts and bring workers here,\u201d the senator said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey are ready to assist their neighbor island. We have to do everything as businesses are shutting down. Even if it means we go to Guam and asking for help. Sometimes they have typhoons we sent our workers there also. So it is just one way of working as neighbors,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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