Repair work on Engine 7 at Power Plant 1 has been completed and it started running over the weekend, according to acting Commonwealth Utilities Corp. executive John Riegel yesterday, as the utility has dried out the last of the generators that got wet when Typhoon Soudelor hit more than two months ago.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe don\u2019t need the capacity, so it\u2019s on standby. But that is the last of the generators that needed to be dried out. That\u2019s done and it\u2019s functional now,\u201d Riegel told Saipan Tribune yesterday.<\/p>\n
That boosts Power Plant 1\u2019s capacity to 45 megawatts, said Riegel.<\/p>\n
\u201cThirty-one [megawatts] is what we are generating now,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Meantime, Riegel said the 180 transformers that were scheduled to arrive Sunday have made it on island, landing on Saipan between Sunday and Monday.<\/p>\n
\u2018The next batch is coming in a couple of weeks,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Also, this weekend, Riegel noted CUC sustained 24-hour water service in Kagman, and got 24-hour water service to Isley Reservoir, which services San Antonio up to San Jose.<\/p>\n
Riegel said they had a few wells go down across the island, citing \u201ctransformer issues\u201d at Obyan wells, which limited water pressure. He added CUC was at work on that yesterday.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur plan this week is to finish getting the wells online and getting the last of the eight or 10 lift stations online and then start hanging the transformers for the additional services in some areas where we couldn\u2019t connect people because of the bad transformer,\u201d Riegel said.<\/p>\n
People in Chinatown, Kagman, Dandan, and San Vicente, for example, were puzzled as to why they didn\u2019t have power while others around them have.<\/p>\n
\u201cNow that we have transformers, we\u2019ll start filling in those holes,\u201d Riegel said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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