{"id":273858,"date":"2020-11-02T22:13:13","date_gmt":"2020-11-03T03:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=273858"},"modified":"2020-11-02T22:13:13","modified_gmt":"2020-11-03T03:13:13","slug":"p2-8-b-energy-infra-damaged-due-to-rolly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/11\/02\/p2-8-b-energy-infra-damaged-due-to-rolly\/","title":{"rendered":"P2.8-B energy infra damaged due to \u2018Rolly\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_165908\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-165908\" style=\"width: 415px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Energy-Secretary-Alfonso-Cusi.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-165908\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Energy-Secretary-Alfonso-Cusi.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"415\" height=\"260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Energy-Secretary-Alfonso-Cusi.jpg 415w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Energy-Secretary-Alfonso-Cusi-300x188.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 415px) 100vw, 415px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-165908\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Power supply in the entire Bicol region went down since the weekend during the onslaught of \u201cRolly\u201d. (PNA file photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary Alfonso Cusi reported that a total of PHP2.8 billion of energy infrastructures were damaged due to Super Typhoon Rolly.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">In President Rodrigo Duterte\u2019s meeting with his Cabinet members Monday evening, Cusi said most of the damaged infrastructures in the energy sector were electric posts and transmission lines.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Power supply in the entire Bicol region went down since the weekend during the onslaught of \u201cRolly\u201d.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Cusi said that as of 6 p.m. Monday, two transmission lines were connected to partially energize Naga City in Camarines Sur.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u201cThere were two transmission lines, the transmission lines from Tayabas to Naga and from Naga to Concepcion, have been restored and this will partly energize the Naga area,\u201d he said.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The energy chief added some 19,000 customers were still out of electricity as of 6 p.m. Monday from over 53,000 affected customers this morning.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Of the 45 distribution lines that were affected due to the typhoon, 25 are already in normal operation, Cusi said.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u201cThe people on the field are working 24 hours and hopefully this week, (electricity) will be restored soon,\u201d he said.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Cusi, who is also the Cabinet Officer for Regional Development and Security (CORDS) for Mimaropa (Region 4-B), added that Typhoon Quinta-hit areas were also affected by Rolly.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">He added power supply in areas affected by Quinta is supposed to be restored this week, but this will be further delayed due to &#8220;Rolly&#8221;.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0\u2013 Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary Alfonso Cusi reported that a total of PHP2.8 billion of energy infrastructures were damaged &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":165908,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-273858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","mauthors-kris-crismundo","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273858"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":273870,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273858\/revisions\/273870"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}