‘Ruby’ disrupts power services in S. Luzon, Visayas
INQUIRER FILE PHOTO / MARIANNE BERMUDEZ
MANILA, Philippines—Power went out in several provinces in the Southern Tagalog region or Calabarzon, Bicol, Eastern Visayas, Central Visayas, and Western Visayas as Tropical Storm Ruby (international codename: Hagupit) slowly made its way through the Philippines.
The National Grid Corp. of the Philippines (NGCP) said transmission lines and related facilities serving Quezon Electric Cooperative or Quezelco 1; Abaca fiber supplier Agro-Industrial Development Corp. or Alindeco; and Sorsogon Electric Cooperative Inc. (SORECO) 1 and 2 disrupted services in the southern part of Luzon.
In the Visayas, downed power lines were those connected to Northern Samar Electric Cooperative, Inc. or NORSAMELCO; Eastern Samar Electric Cooperative, Inc. or ESAMELCO; Southern Leyte Electric Cooperative, Inc. or SOLECO; Leyte Electric Cooperative 3, 4, and 5; Don Orestes Romualdez Electric Cooperative, Inc. or DORELCO; Samar Electric Cooperative Inc. 1; Biliran Electric Cooperative or BILECO; Philippine Associated Smelting and Refining Corp. or PASAR; Samar Cooperatives; abaca fiber producer Specialty Pulp Manufacturing, Inc. or SPMI; Visayan Oil Mill, Inc.; SC Global Coco Products, Inc.; Capiz Electric Cooperative Inc. or CAPELCO; Bohol Electric Cooperative Inc. or BOHECO 1 and 2; Iloilo Electric Cooperative, Inc. or ILECO 1 and 2; Philippine Mining Service Corporation or PMSC; and Bohol Light Co. Inc. or BLCI.
Power services were also disrupted in Janopol in Bohol; as well as Tacloban City, Palo, and Babatngon in Leyte province due to downed transmission and distribution lines.
