Power restored in blackout-hit Negros Occidental areas

BACOLOD CITY—Power has been restored in two towns and one city of Negros Occidental hit by blackouts on Oct. 15 due to a damaged transformer of the Northern Negros Electric Cooperative (Noneco). “We have achieved 100 percent power restoration,” Noneco said in a statement Friday. Noneco installed a 10-megavolt-ampere (MVA) power transformer at its Victorias