A \u201cwiring anomaly\u201d has forced the local hospital off the power grid, said acting Commonwealth Utilities Corp. executive director John Riegel.<\/p>\n
This comes less than two weeks after CUC restored power to the hospital after Typhoon Soudelor crippled their distribution and generation capacity.<\/p>\n
Riegel said the hospital is back on its generator.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is some sort of wiring anomaly that has to be solved,\u201d Riegel said, noting that this was on the \u201ccustomer-side\u201d of things.<\/p>\n
Riegel said they have tested their system from out of their power plant to the hospital and found it \u201cgood.\u201d<\/p>\n
They aim to troubleshoot the hospital\u2019s wiring today, according to Riegel.<\/p>\n
He said there might be problems with their neutral wire and phasing but CUC does not have much information.<\/p>\n
He added the hospital switched back to generator on Monday.<\/p>\n
Meantime, more-than-half of the concrete poles that arrived last Saturday have been installed on island.<\/p>\n
Riegel said poles have been installed at Smiling Cove down to American Memorial Park and Garapan.<\/p>\n
He said they have installed some at the Chalan Kiya Substation, and the road to the Saipan airport.<\/p>\n
Riegel said they have installed upwards of 50 poles since Saturday or about half of the 90 poles that arrived.<\/p>\n
Timeframe<\/strong> Riegel described re-energizing efforts to take place closest to their power plants, expanding beyond that to the island\u2019s main lines and into the laterals.<\/p>\n As for full power restoration to every single home, Riegel called this a \u201cseveral-month\u201d job.<\/p>\n He said some houses would need new lines from power poles to their weather heads and to meter sockets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A \u201cwiring anomaly\u201d has forced the local hospital off the power grid, said acting Commonwealth…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[6684,49,50,6707],"class_list":["post-209125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-chalan-kiya-substation","tag-cuc","tag-power","tag-smiling-cove"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209125","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\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nOn power restoration timeframe, Riegel said he is looking to meet with CUC Power Manager Gary Camacho to get some details for the public on how restoration will go.<\/p>\n