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Responsibility and Preventive Measures needed in all government agencies. They have to take care of the horse that pulls the cart.
One solution for long-term fix to our power woes--PRIVATIZE! Enough with lip service, management hired through political favors, and ever expanding GovGu workforce. GovGu is killing the very people they're suppose to serve. Consumers have become the burden as we complain and voice our frustration. The insult will continue with higher rates to pay for more loans and GovGu management. Enough already!
GPA needs a good kick in the butt ! The one hour scheduled power outage became two , the two hour scheduled power outage became three and to top it off the power outage schedule they sent out seemed to be off by 2-3 hours .. What was listed for my village/area was not accurate at all .
Wtf ? Can't even follow a schedule they created ? The incompetence is great in the GPA leadership .. Thanks Gov Guam !
Welcome to the government. It's not what you know. It's who you know. They bring their families first without any experience and leave out the one's who have the knowledge and experience. Come on folks, look at what's coming up. The election. This is why we are not getting the job done right because the government does not hire the experts only their family. Let's get real. The truth hurts.
Boy, am I glad I invested in a Cummins-Onan 20KW LP Whole house Standby Genset. It really came in handy yesterday. Amazingly, it
worked like a champ. I'm sure simple maintenance items I do, like check the battery levels & change the oil & filter per the manufactuer's suggested Maintenance schedule, have something to do with it operating reliably--of course!
Sell it off to a REAL power and utilities company, that hires more QUALIFIED engineers and maintenance personnel, instead of the reactive junk you have employed. You would think GPA would have a PROACTIVE stance with such a great responsibility..................wait a minute..........did I just mention GPA and PROACTIVE in the same sentence...........my bad.
PURE NEGLIGENCE! Very typical of a GOVGUAM agency! And let's give them another raise for a job well done in making people's lives miserable! And we want to be decolonized? What a joke! Our government can't balance a budget, let alone fix the broken infrastructure.... Will this be another reason to borrow millions of dollars to say that your gonna fix the poweplant and pocket it?
FREAKIN GPA , cmon fire the people that act like they know what the hell there doing and hire the real engineers . You hire the less salary this is what the hell we get and you want to up the power bills for what like this shiet cmon now use ur coconut heads gpa management start firing the management and hire the pro's . 10 people without knowledge = 2 persons salary that knows , do the math its so easy god dannggit.
If you will do a load shedding to correct the problem do it. and make sure you have the schedule right so we can fire up the generator.
to all the people here on guam cheap generator at kmart or homedepot get it so we can help this idiotic gpa give them time to fix the problem.
Same people that spent millions of dollars for maintenance for something that blew up and have no clue what caused it are running the show. What else could you expect. We need real experts....political hires are what they are....they don't even count. I'm talking about all those that have been in there forever and make no difference. They there or they are not......same thing as just letting equipment rot as if left all alone.
The plants are old. Some of us forgot that the third one, which is the newest one blew up. Obviously things are bound to happen since the two plants took up the load of the third. I really think that GPA has been doing a tremendous job in doing the best that they can to keep the power up and running. It's been over a year since one of the plants blew up but they were still able to keep our power running despite the lack of a third power plant and being denied insurance money for a new one. These plants are obviously extremely expensive and obtaining a new one will take time. No, I do not work for GPA, and I will give credit to where credit is due. These are hardworking men and women!
Just reading the comments and I think it's pretty sad. All it is is blame. You can't solve a problem by always looking to the past. You need to move forward. Also, no matter how great a "long-range" plan a company has, it will obviously take time to recover when an accident as extreme as what GPA had to endure happens. Unfortunate things can happen, but it's how a company responds to situations that really matter. Thumbs up to GPA! Keep the morale up and just know that there are those who appreciate your efforts.
FYI: Fed up with gov guam - The building was already built before the Cabras 3 blew up.
That's just to let the government you know how it is they want to show the legislature and the leaders that, hey GPA need more money let's send the some millions so they could repair the power plant or buy a new one. Next thing you know, "Pay Raise" or this is the trick when there is no typhoon or storm and it's almost end of the year almost Christmas so the only way to make some over time is kill the whole Cabras and start the clock, tick tock tick tock for some overtime so we have a fat check before Christmas. That how it works. ????
Phil you say things happen the plants are old. Well they knew this and should have planned on replacing them gradually. We pay such high power bills from the management. They are top heavy. Go the the offices on the back road the money from that building could have gone to a new plant. Card reader access, tiles, mighty fancy. The heavy duty pickups the employees use. How many times are they carrying a heavy load. Just the employees going to lunch. They must eat a lot to need that heavy duty pick up. The only way this will stop is privatization. LOOK AT GTA LOOK AT THE DUMP, LOOK AT THE NEW SCHOOLS UNDER CONTRACT. PRIVATIZE GWA, GPA, THE SCHOOLS, AS MUCH AS WE CAN. BIBA GOV GUAM.
WTF, my neighbor right next to me has power, and mine has been out since 6:00
Fault is entirely GPA for failure to follow professional maintenance best practices and failure to plan long-range and execute such plans.
Even with a good PM program things will happen. Cabras 1&2 are really old. The system has old controls too and it is on the ragged edge. The least bit of loss causes it to become unstable, leading to loss of additional generators.
The thing is that there are preventative maintinance procedures. If they did them this wouldn't happen and this is why we pay such high power bills.