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Manglona says Tinian has excess power generators, Guam offers help
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Posted on Aug 24 2008
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.
During Friday’s 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.
“I don’t 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,” he said.
The Rota senator said these daily outages on the island should be stopped.
“We live on Dandan at three to six hours of outages a night is just unreasonable,” he pointed out.
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.
“This is not the first time that I brought this up. Four months ago I brought this up,” he said.
Manglona also stated that he received a call from the acting governor of Guam, extending assistance regarding power situation.
He said he already informed CUC executive director Tony Muna about Guam’s offer to help.
“They are willing to provide spare parts and bring workers here,” the senator said.
“They 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,” he added.
