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CUC reviewing results from Leidos
The Commonwealth Utilities Corp. is now in the process of reviewing the plans submitted by the consultant it hired to analyze bids for an integrated resource management plan.
According to acting CUC executive director Gary Camacho, Leidos Engineering LLC made a presentation to the board at their meeting last month.
“They’ve submitted results from their model and that’s currently being reviewed by CUC,” Camacho told Saipan Tribune. “We’ll be communicating with the committees and we’ve got the electrical engineering reviewing that package and see what the recommendations are.”
Camacho said the utilities corporation will then decide what is best.
“CUC will review and make a determination on what’s best for CUC and its consumers and determine whether to move forward with the selection,” he said.
Without giving specific details, Camacho said the report from Leidos “consists of variety of different types of generation to include renewables.”
“It’s a number of co-generation possibilities,” he said.
In August, Saipan Tribune reported that Leidos was down to five bids: “Renewable 1” which offers a range of solar generation, both with and without storage, with options for site control at specific feeders; “Renewable 2” which provides simple solar generation with 10-megawatt max capacity; “Thermal 1” which has a project that involves diesel engines burning heavy fuel oil; “Thermal 2” which has plans for diesel engines burning light fuel at 30 megawatt max capacity; and “Thermal 3” which was described by Leidos as a project ranging from “extending CUC’s existing assets to new diesel engines burning light fuel.”
