The Benguet Electric Cooperative incurred P610,908.32 worth of damage to distribution system on the onslaught of Typhoon Kristine.
Beneco system planning and design engineer, Sheraine Mae Willy said the electric cooperative recorded P593, 421.72 damage to infrastructure in the province of Benguet while in Baguio City, damage reached P17,486.60, data from the Network Services Department (NSD) showed on October 28.
The five damaged transformers formed the biggest chunk of the damages at P362, 716.06 located in Baguio Gold, Itogon; Bangao, Buguias; Tinongdan, Itogon; Bayabas, Sablan and Camp 1, Tuba.
“We were expecting and prepared for the worst-case scenario of damages to our distribution system once Kristine (typhoon) lands in Baguio and Benguet, considering the massive damages it wrought on its path when it landed in Bicol region, we were spared,” Ramel Rifani, NSD manager said.
Beneco reported consumers may have experienced short-spanned power outages. While collapsed, eroded, and bent poles that were replaced in the towns of Mankayan, La Trinidad, Buguias, Tuba, and Baguio City.
Rifani said there were no major power outage was felt in Baguio City, during the onslaught of typhoon Kristine with reports of mostly no lights and low voltage were received. Laarni Ilagan, Benguet Electric Cooperative release