Noneco fully restores power in 3 north Negros localities

BACOLOD CITY — The Northern Negros Electric Cooperative (Noneco) has announced that power was fully restored to Victorias City and the towns of EB Magalona and Manapla at 10:59 a.m. on Friday, Oct. 18.

“We have achieved 100 percent power restoration,” it said in a statement.

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Noneco installed a 10 MegaVolt Amperes (MVA) power transformer at its Victorias substation to replace a 15MVA transformer that broke down on Tuesday, said its general manager Wilbe Bilbao.

The damage to the 15 MVA power transformer at the Victorias’ substation had plunged 30,000 households into darkness in EB Magalona, Victorias and portions of Manapla at 5:50 a.m. Tuesday but 90 percent of the power had been restored as of Wednesday afternoon.

Bilbao said most of the remaining areas whose power was fully restored on Friday were in remote locations.