Leyte left in dark by New Year’s Eve power outage

Leyte left in dark by New Year’s Eve power outage

[Cebu Daily Mail] - 01/1/2025

TACLOBAN CITY, Philippines – Residents of this city and its neighboring towns of Palo and Babatngon ushered in the New Year in darkness as a power interruption left them without electricity for at least 10 hours. The outage, which affected over 91,000 member consumers, began at 10:11 p.m. (…)



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