It will take about one month before Victorias-Manapla-Cadiz Rural Electric Service Cooperative Inc. could fully restore power in its service areas, officer-in-charge Dan Pondevilla, said yesterday.

Pondevilla said they have to partially energized the cities of Escalante and San Carlos and the town of Toboso.

They were not able to fully repair their damage lines yet although they have been augmented by technical teams from the Central Negros Electric Cooperative and the Negros Occidental Electric Cooperative.

Their losses due to power outages are at P3 million a day, Pondevilla claimed.

On Tuesday last week, the towns of E.B. Magalona and Manapla and Victorias City were energized and electricity was restored in Cadiz and Sagay cities Wednesday.

The power outages are caused by the destruction of the 69-kilovolt line of the National Grid Power Corporation in their service areas at the height of super typhoon Yolanda, he said.*APN

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