The big question is exactly how much does it cost to generate the power with current engines. The first answer should be how much is the government paying on its monthly bill and how much does it still owes CUC and why are the taxpayers subsidizing the government.
To CUC, try use the following equation to answer some questions about the current rate. Pt=(1+1NFt-Xt+Zt)*P t-1 (sorry cannot list these exactly with typed print, but CUC director, or supervisor should understand)
Pt, is a measure of system average rate or price of electricity. INFt, is a measure of inflation relative to the cost of inputs to electric service. Xt, is the productivity offset and Zt, is an adjustment for other exogenous factors.
Just fill in the blanks and figure it out. (Assuming that there are some kind of record keeping.) If this is going to be a problem doing the equation, I would like to suggest you feed the info to Telesource, Tinian (or NMC) and ask them to help with this equation.
When CUC figures this out it should answer a lot of questions. The answer may surprise a lot of people.
On another note, when we were on self-generation at IBB (Voice of America) Tinian in 1999/2000 we were running at 8.9 efficiency which is near as perfect as you could get. (We were only running three transmitters then at 250-kw power).
When Tinian (Telesource) CUC power plant came online, according to my notes, they were running at 9.9 (which is extremely good for their engines) and Dynasty was not on the grid yet. (It would be interesting to know what the numbers for Tinian are now as the engines are a few years old.)
This is what CUC should be coming up with for answers. This is standard and should be figured and logged in the monthly report along with the daily shift readings on the statistics, so you can see where the gensets and the power plants are headed instead of waiting 20+ years to find out that many people are not doing their jobs.
JOHN MIXSON
San Jose, Tinian
