BY DOMINIQUE GABRIEL BAÑAGA
BACOLOD City – Power cooperatives in Negros Occidental are sending their personnel to Mindoro, one of the hardest-hit provinces of typhoons “Quinta” and “Rolly.”
Atty. Dan Pondevilla, general manager of the Northern Negros Electric Cooperative (NONECO), said the deployment was their answer to the call of the Philippine Rural Electric Cooperatives Association to assist the Oriental Mindoro Electric Cooperative, Inc. (ORMECO) and the Occidental Mindoro Electric Cooperative Inc., (OMECO) in the restoration of power in the province.
Pondevilla said NONECO will send five of its personnel, a boom truck and a pick-up truck as part of the team from Negros that will stay in Mindoro for two weeks.
The Bacolod City-based Central Negros Electric Cooperative (CENECO) and the Negros Occidental Electric Cooperative (NOCECO) will also send augmentation teams to help restore power in the affected areas.
CENECO will send an eight-man team with trucks and equipment while NOCECO will send seven personnel.
The teams from NONECO, CENECO and NOCECO will be part of the ten teams from ten cooperatives in Region 6 (Western Visayas) sent to Mindoro to work on the lines of the Oriental Mindoro and Occidental Mindoro electric cooperatives.
The electric cooperatives have formed Task Force Duterte-Power Restoration Rapid Deployment that will assist in the distribution utilities affected by the typhoon to restore electricity./PN
