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Restore trust and reduce outages by delivering resilient energy services to every Virgin Islander.
Occurrences
Evidence
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WAPA advised customers of scheduled overnight electrical interruptions on August 21 and August 22, 2026 affecting Feeder 6B and then Feeders 5A, 6A, 10A, and 6B, with thousands of customers affected while crews replaced a utility pole and restored normal system operations.
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Plaskett submitted a FY2027 Community Project Funding request for $3,000,000 for WAPA to construct an Emergency Response and Community Resilience Facility on St. John, citing repeated severe weather events and outages in February and March 2026 exceeding 40 hours that left residents without critical emergency resources.
Assessments
Plaskett made a concrete same-term federal appropriations effort by requesting FY2027 Community Project Funding for a WAPA resilience and emergency response facility tied to long outages, but the request did not guarantee funding or completion. The supplied WAPA evidence also shows scheduled electrical interruptions still affecting thousands of Virgin Islands customers in August 2026, so resilient energy service to every Virgin Islander has not been shown as delivered. Because the candidate remains in federal office and the relevant funding/resilience work is pending rather than finally failed, unresolved fits better than never.