{"id":274399,"date":"2020-11-07T04:52:48","date_gmt":"2020-11-07T09:52:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=274399"},"modified":"2020-11-07T04:52:48","modified_gmt":"2020-11-07T09:52:48","slug":"power-in-over-1-1m-rolly-hit-households-now-restored","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/11\/07\/power-in-over-1-1m-rolly-hit-households-now-restored\/","title":{"rendered":"Power in over 1.1M \u2018Rolly\u2019-hit households now restored"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_200842\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-200842\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/bright-1847006_960_720.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-200842\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/bright-1847006_960_720.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/bright-1847006_960_720.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/bright-1847006_960_720-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/bright-1847006_960_720-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/bright-1847006_960_720-20x15.jpg 20w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-200842\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A report from the National Electrification Administration, meanwhile, valued at PHP290.3 million the damage to power infrastructures of 20 electric cooperatives in 236 municipalities and cities in 13 provinces. (Pixabay photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0The Department of Energy (DOE) has reported that power has been restored in more than half of the households affected by the onslaught of Super Typhoon Rolly.<\/p>\n<p>In its Task Force on Energy Resiliency Super Typhoon Rolly Update No. 7, released on November 6, the department said electricity was restored at 6 p.m. on Thursday in 52.72 percent, or 1,102,848 households, out of the 2,091,796 affected customers.<\/p>\n<p>A report from the National Electrification Administration, meanwhile, valued at PHP290.3 million the damage to power infrastructures of 20 electric cooperatives in 236 municipalities and cities in 13 provinces.<\/p>\n<p>On power generation, some 2,406 megawatts (MW) have been restored.<\/p>\n<p>Power plants affected by &#8220;Rolly&#8221; have a total installed capacity of 2,813 MW.<\/p>\n<p>Six power plants went offline during the onslaught of &#8220;Rolly&#8221; as contingency measures to avoid plant damage.<\/p>\n<p>As of Thursday, four power plants were restored, including the 1,200-MW Ilijan Natural Gas-fired Power Plant, the 166.4-MW Mak-Ban Geothermal Power Plant, the 255.7-MW Santa Rita Power Plant, and the 264.8-MW San Lorenzo Power Plant.<\/p>\n<p>The Tiwi Geothermal Power Plant (117 MW) and Bacman Geothermal Power Plant (140 MW) are still down.<\/p>\n<p>Also, the restoration of the 150-MW Southwest Luzon Power Generation Corp. is ongoing and is expected to come online by November 15.<\/p>\n<p>Other power plants that were restored are the Avion Power Plant, Pagbilao Coal-fired Power Plant, One Subic Power Generation, and Botocan Hydroelectric Power Plant.<\/p>\n<p>Energy Secretary Alfonso Cusi pledged to restore power in the Bicol region, which was heavily hit by &#8220;Rolly&#8221;, before Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe understand that Christmas is fast approaching and we don\u2019t like people to be suffering or in inconvenience because there is no electricity.\u00a0<em>Hindi namin hihintayin ang Pasko at kailangan magkaroon ng kuryente ang mga tao<\/em>\u00a0(We will not wait for Christmas. People need to have electricity),\u201d Cusi said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0\u2013\u00a0The Department of Energy (DOE) has reported that power has been restored in more than half of the households affected &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":200842,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-274399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-kris-crismundo","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274399","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274399"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":274400,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274399\/revisions\/274400"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}