ASPA power outage
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The American Samoa Power Authority (ASPA) is advising the public that a power shutdown is scheduled today, Friday, January 30th 2026, from 10:00am to 1:00pm for only a certain area of Tafuna/ Ottoville, which is from Tradewinds Hotel intersection to Peteli Church area....
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The American Samoa Power Authority (ASPA) publicly apologized for a power disruption that lasted nearly two hours this past Tuesday, Aug. 19, significantly impacting residents and businesses across the entire western side of the island.
In their official statement, ASPA...
ASPA had a busy Saturday, Jan. 18, with a West side power outage reported in the morning, with some people and businesses experiencing more than four hours of ‘no power’, and in the evening, ASPA’s water crews had to do repairs on water lines to restore the water pressure for the area from Aua to...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The sudden power outage on the island of Tutuila on Saturday morning August 19, 2023 took ASPA workers about five hours to bring to a close and a full recovery.
The break down happened at about 7:15am while most people were out and about getting the weekend ready for...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Responding to Samoa News queries, American Samoa Power Authority executive director Wallon Young has followed up on information about the lighting strike that caused an island-wide power outage on Tutuila this past Saturday.
Young explained in response to Samoa News...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Amid pre-Flag Day celebrations weather conditions turned ugly this past Saturday with heavy rain, and thunder and lightening, the island suffered a power outage around 1:20p.m and many residents on the western side of Tutuila didn’t get power restored until after 5p.m....
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The American Samoa Power Authority has issued a public apology following the island wide power outage that occurred in the wee hours of last Friday morning and assured the use of Christmas lights was not the cause.
“The cause of the island wide outage was due to a faulty...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — American Samoa Power Authority (ASPA) executive director Wallon Young confirmed over the weekend that last Friday’s power outage, affected the entire island of Tutuila and provided an explanation as to the cause of the outage, which occurred around 7:48a.m.
The...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — ASTCA services were not affected by ASPA’s November 17 power outage. Unfortunately, customers without battery back-up or generators were unable to use their land-line (dial-tone) telephones and broadband internet. Mobile customers were not affected, except in the village...