{"id":393232,"date":"2023-06-07T06:06:24","date_gmt":"2023-06-06T20:06:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=393232"},"modified":"2023-06-07T06:06:24","modified_gmt":"2023-06-06T20:06:24","slug":"cuc-emergency-backup-system-tested-and-ready","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/cuc-emergency-backup-system-tested-and-ready\/","title":{"rendered":"CUC emergency backup system tested and ready"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_393271\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-393271\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Betty-Terlaje-mug-PW-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-393271\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Betty-Terlaje-mug-PW-1-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-393271\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Betty G. Terlaje<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The 1.5-megawatt engine at the Commonwealth Utilities Corp.\u2019s Power Plant 3 in Isley Field that serves as an emergency backup system to power the water wells at the Saipan airport has already been tested and is ready to go.<\/p>\n<p>Betty G. Terlaje, who is the acting CUC executive director, said in an interview Friday that the engine at Power Plant 3 was ready for the recent Typhoon Mawar, but it was not needed because the typhoon spared Saipan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo it just standby at this point. Should there be a disaster again here, that would power up our water wells right away,\u201d Terlaje said. \u201cWe warmed it before the typhoon. It\u2019s been tested already. It is connected to our wells.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Terlaje said the purpose of Power Plant 3 is for an emergency backup system.<\/p>\n<p>Funded by the Federal Emergency Management Office\u2019s $7.3-million grant for the water hazard mitigation, the engine, described as a Caterpillar, arrived on Saipan last April.<\/p>\n<p>CUC said the engine is self-generating, which means it stands its own, is self-contained and will have remote control capability.<\/p>\n<p>Power Plant 3 was deactivated in 2002. CUC reactivated it for the use of water wells during emergencies or disasters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 1.5-megawatt engine at the Commonwealth Utilities Corp.\u2019s Power Plant 3 in Isley Field that&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":393270,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[900],"tags":[49],"class_list":["post-393232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","tag-cuc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393232","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\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393232\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}