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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.

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. 

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.