TACLOBAN CITY, Dec.
21 -- The Biliran Electric Cooperative
(Bileco) has restored electricity supply to 65 out of 117 villages in province
after tropical storm “Urduja” damaged power lines.
In a statement
released Thursday, Bileco said of all the seven towns connected to the main
grid, only the town of Kawayan is now experiencing power outage since the storm
pummeled the region last week.
“Restoration works
have been hampered by mobility as some roads are still inaccessible due to
landslides and damaged bridges. Our priority is to repair the backbone leading
to Kawayan town to attain 100 percent energization in all covered towns,” the
electric cooperative said in statement issued Thursday noon.
Bileco, the sole
power service provider in Biliran province, has 34,066 household connections in
117 villages.
In an advisory issued
on December 18, the NGCP said power transmission operations in Visayas are back
to normal operations as the firm successfully completed the restoration of
lines damaged by the storm.
The cooperative’s
initial report showed that more than a hundred electric poles were toppled or
with damage cost of primary lines pegged at PHP11 million as of December 18.
Early this week, the
Bileco board of directors passed several resolutions to avail of calamity loan
from the National Electrification Administration and approve the emergency
purchase of rehabilitation materials after the local government declared
Biliran province under a state of calamity. (SQM/PNA)
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