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The Siargao Electric Cooperative, Inc. (SIARELCO) restored electricity services to its entire franchise area after fixing a major line fault in one of its undersea cables, which caused widespread power outage affecting many households and businesses for 13 days.
National Electrification Administration (NEA) chief Antonio Mariano Almeda visited Siargao on Saturday, 14 December 2024, to commission a four-megawatt modular generator set.
Read more: Power Returns to Siargao, Bucas Grande Islands After 13-day Blackout
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The National Electrification Administration (NEA) welcomed the Joint Memorandum Circular (JMC) of the Department of Energy (DOE) and Department of Finance (DOF) providing the guidelines for the availment of certain local tax exemptions by Electric Cooperatives (ECs).
“The availment of these preferential rights will help the ECs allocate monetary resources to better pursue our common purpose of nation-building,” NEA Administrator Antonio Mariano Almeda said at the signing ceremony held on Wednesday at the Minority Conference Office in Batasan Pambansa.
Read more: NEA Welcomes DOE-DOF JMC on ECs’ Availment of Preferential Rights
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The National Electrification Administration (NEA) reported on Monday that the initial estimated cost of damage to electric cooperative (EC) facilities attributed to the four major storms that hit the Philippines this month reached a combined total of P40,675,916.70.
The latest figure covers the trails of destruction left on the rural electrification sector by Typhoons ‘Marce’ (Yinxing), ‘Nika’ (Toraji), ‘Ofel’ (Usagi), and ‘Pepito’ (Man-Yi), which slammed into almost the same regions and provinces over the past few weeks since November 4.
Read more: November Storms Destroy P40.67-M Worth of EC Power Distribution Assets
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At least 261 electrification workers from Luzon and Visayas were deployed this week to speed up power restoration efforts in Aurora, Catanduanes and Nueva Vizcaya—three provinces that sustained heavy energy infrastructure damage in the aftermath of Typhoon ‘Pepito.’
Based on its latest situation report, the National Electrification Administration (NEA) through its Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Department (DRRMD) said the teams organized under Task Force Kapatid (TFK) were mobilized since November 19.
Read more: NEA Assembles 261 Lineworkers to Restore Power After Typhoon ‘Pepito’
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Administrator Antonio Mariano Almeda of the National Electrification Administration (NEA) led on Sunday, 10 November 2024, the energization of Sitio Tabok in Barangay Peña, which is located in the Tinambacan district of Calbayog City, Samar.
The community received the benefits of electricity through the Sitio Energization Program (SEP) of the NEA facilitated by the Samar I Electric Cooperative, Inc. (SAMELCO I). The households were connected through power distribution lines operated and maintained by the co-op to the existing energy grid.
Read more: NEA Chief Almeda Leads Energization of Sitio Tabok, Samar Covered by SAMELCO I
