💧 Water and Power · St. Thomas, VI
WAPA board approved wind project for Bovoni Point on St. Thomas
Official document: http://www.viwapa.vi/docs/default-source/default-document-library/03292021--wapa-board-approves-wind-project-for-bovoni-point-st-thomas.pdf?sfvrsn=3bc93ee3_2
The Virgin Islands Water and Power Authority’s governing board voted unanimously on March 25, 2021, to approve a power purchase agreement with Advance Power, LLC for a wind project at Bovoni Point on St. Thomas.
Under the agreement, Advance Power was to develop, finance, permit, design, construct, test, operate and maintain a wind farm at the site. WAPA said the project was expected to be completed within 24 months of the contract’s effective date.
The planned facility was to include six wind turbine generators producing about 10 megawatts of electricity for sale to WAPA.
WAPA said Advance Power was the most responsive bidder to a request for proposals issued in April 2017, and negotiations had been underway since August 2017. The authority said Advance Power had held certification as a qualified facility from the Virgin Islands Public Services Commission since 2014 and received an extension in November 2017.
WAPA said a National Renewable Energy Laboratory report had identified Bovoni Point as a wind-generation site as early as 2012 and estimated annual output from a wind farm there at between 7,000 and 29,000 megawatt hours.