Contract awarded for Scow Bay generator part

For the past few years, the Petersburg Borough has been working to bolster its fleet of diesel generators to be better prepared for power outages when the hydropower system fails. On Monday, the Borough Assembly took one step closer by awarding a contract to GD Partners to manufacture a new generator part for up to $274,000. The part is crucial for Petersburg’s in-progress Scow Bay diesel generation project.

The borough already bought the new diesel generator and is storing it in Texas right now. But for the generator to work properly, it needs another part, called a step-up transformer. Peter...