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Governor Bryan Announces Deployment of First All-Electric VIPD Patrol Vehicles

U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDS — Governor Albert Bryan Jr. is proud to announce the deployment of five fully outfitted, all-electric Ford Mustang Mach-E patrol vehicles into the Virgin Islands Police Department fleet, marking a major milestone in the Territory’s transportation electrification efforts. The five vehicles will be positioned across all three islands, with two in St. Croix, two in St. Thomas and one in St. John. The vehicles were purchased through a grant secured by the Virgin Islands Energ...
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Powerwalls Become a Power Plant: Virgin Islands VPP Delivers 1 MW in Initial Grid Test

U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDS– Last Monday, the Virgin Islands Energy Office launched an inaugural test of the Virgin Islands Battery Energy Storage 2.0 Virtual Power Plant. The successful test served to showcase that the network of decentralized residential battery energy storage systems in the Territory can be aggregated into a utility-scale generation asset that can be dispatched to support the grid. The test, carried out in coordination with Tesla Energy & the Virgin Islands Water and Power...
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