Even sans electricity, the beauty of Boracay Island never fails to captivate tourists. (Jun Aguirre)
BORACAY―The Aklan Electric Cooperative (AKELCO) said some 8,000 consumers in this resort island have been experiencing a series of power interruptions since 23 September.
The outage is from 8 a.m. until 5 p.m. Monday, Tuesday, Friday and Saturday.
Engr. Joel Martinez, head of the AKELCO engineering department, said the outage may last for a month.
“The series of brownouts are being experienced because we have to transfer our electrical posts to give way to the road widening of the Department of Public Works and Highways. This effort is part of the environmental rehabilitation of this resort island,” Martinez said in an interview.
It could be recalled that President Rodrigo Duterte ordered the closure of the resort island for six months last year to undergo environmental rehabilitation.
Resort and hotel managers are using generator sets to power up their establishments.
“We in AKELCO are doing everything to immediately transfer the poles so that the series of brownouts will not reach the one-month target,” Martinez said.
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