By Lenie Lectura – April
26, 2019 from Business Mirror
ALL electric
cooperatives (ECs) in Central Luzon and Eastern Visayas are now supplying power
to their assigned areas after two earthquake incidents hit Luzon and the
Visayas early this week.
The National
Electrification Administration (NEA) said the ECs have reported normal
operations including those in Pampanga, which suffered a series of power
interruptions shortly after the 6.1-magnitude tremor struck Zambales on Monday.
NEA Deputy
Administrator for Technical Services Artis Nikki Tortola said it took a while
for the Pampanga II Electric Cooperative Inc. (Pelco II) to fully restore power
for all its customers, but its distribution system was expected to normalize by
April 24.
The Guagua-based Pelco
II earlier reported it was able to switch the lights back on for 201,227 or
99.85 percent of its consumers on April 23.
“All [ECs in Central
Luzon] are under normal operations already—even Pelco II, which was
significantly hit. But so far, they have restored their system as of
Wednesday,” Tortola said.
Meanwhile, the Eastern
Samar Electric Cooperative Inc. (Esamelco) reported it has fully restored
electricity service to nine municipalities (Arteche, Can-avid, Dolores,
Jipadpad, Maslog, Oras, San Policarpio, Taft and Sulat) out of 23 areas
affected by the 6.5-magnitude earthquake on April 23.
Power-restoration
efforts continued and were completed by Wednesday for the municipalities of
Balangiga, Balangkayan, Borongan City, General MacArthur, Giporlos, Guiuan,
Hernani, Lawaan, Llorente, Maydolong, Mercedes, Quinapondan, Salcedo and San
Julian, where the quake’s epicenter was located.
The coverage areas of
Samar I Electric Cooperative Inc. (Samelco I), Samelco II, Northern Samar
Electric Cooperative Inc. (Norsamelco) also experienced varying degrees of
outages because of the earthquake, but power has been restored.
Tortola said the tremor
only caused minor damage to power co-ops in Eastern Visayas.
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