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Districtwide Outage Gives Way to Load Shedding as WAPA Battles Generation Instability Into Sunday Afternoon

31 May 2026
This content originally appeared on The Virgin Islands Consortium.
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Districtwide Outage Gives Way to Load Shedding as WAPA Battles Generation Instability Into Sunday Afternoon

WAPA’s restoration efforts stretched from Saturday night into Sunday afternoon after a mechanical fault, unexpected generation loss and reduced capacity forced repeated outages and load shedding across the St. Thomas-St. John District.