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Published April 23, 2021, 5:07 PM
The country’s electric cooperatives (ECs) are stepping up restoration efforts to bring back electricity supply in many areas that had been recently pummeled by typhoon Bising – primarily those in Visayas and the Bicol region.
The National Electrification Administration (NEA), which has supervisory function over the ECs, indicated that the power utilities “are continuously working to fix the damage to power distribution facilities and restore electricity.”
As culled from the monitoring report of the NEA Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Department, several areas in Region 8 or Eastern Visayas experienced differing scale of power service interruptions.
The domains that had been encumbered with snagged power supply included Western Samar – primarily in the franchise areas of Samar I Electric Cooperative (SAMELCO I) – but some areas already had their electricity service restored, according to NEA.