Once the power plant is complete, GPA can retire Cabras engines 1 and 2, Sanchez said. Benavente said GPA is planning to have a bid out in August. The targeted commissioning date for the new power plant is April 2022. Read More: GPA to award contract for energy storage system New power plantīenavente also said the agency has received approval from the Consolidated Commission on Utilities and the Public Utilities Commission to build a new power plant that could generate 180 megawatts of power. GPA expects the battery system to be operational around this time next year. This $35 million energy storage system will generate 40 megawatts of power. To significantly decrease the amount of short outages, GPA will implement an energy storage system to back up the main power grid. Otherwise, Guam would experience an islandwide blackout that could last for about six hours, Benavente said. The intermittent outages, lasting between 5 and 30 minutes, are needed to help restore power back to the grid. GPA customers could still experience short outages whenever one of the larger generators of the system trips. With the Dededo power plant completion, power generation reserves would be close to where it was before the Cabras explosion, Benavente said. The estimated $9.7 million overhaul is scheduled for July, according to Pacific Daily News files. The turbines will work in place of Cabras engine 1 when it is overhauled. The power plant, which has two units, generates a total of 40 megawatts of energy, according to Benavente.
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