P11M rewiring project benefits 9 public schools

PR 03/03/2021

Just in time for the celebration of Fire Safety Month in March, Visayan Electric has turned over a total of 419 rewired classrooms to nine public schools within its franchise area, helping protect students and teachers from…

No disconnection for lifeline customers

PR 02/09/2021

Visayan Electric will not implement disconnections on lifeline customers until March 31, 2021. This, after the Department of Energy, in a memorandum dated February 5, 2021 signed by Energy Secretary Alfonso G. Cusi, asked distribution utilities not…

Scheduled Visayan Electric power interruptions from January 9-15, 2021

PR 01/07/2021

The Visayan Electric Co. has announced its scheduled power service interruptions in some parts of Metro Cebu from January 9 to 15. In its Facebook page, Visayan Electric has listed the areas that will be affected and…

Biz community to Visayan Electric: Explain high cost of power

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 12/07/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines — The Cebu Chamber of Commerce Incorporated (CCCI) is seeking the intervention of the Regional Development Council in Central Visayas (RDC-7) to make the Visayan Electric (formerly VECO) explain the high cost of electricity…

Visayan Electric sends team to help restore power in Albay

PR 11/18/2020

In the past week, linemen from the Visayan Electric Co. have been working tirelessly to help restore power in the province of Albay, which bore the brunt of the strongest typhoon to hit the country this year.…

Visayan Electric supports DENR, EMB-7’s Mahiga River rehabilitation efforts

PR 10/30/2020

Visayan Electric donated garbage bins and installed a litter trapping device in support of the efforts of DENR Sec. Roy Cimatu and EMB-7 RD Lormelyn Claudio to rehabilitate the Mahiga River. The electric utility is one of…

VECO spreads #PositiveEnergy to frontliners

PR 04/05/2020

Visayan Electric Co. dropped off 1,500 N95 masks, 10,000 pairs of nitrile gloves, and 1,300 safety goggles at the Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center, the designated testing facility for COVID-19 in the Visayas last April 3, 2020. “The…

Visayan Electric to implement additional phases of its hybrid underground system project

Irene R. Sino Cruz 09/18/2019

CEBU CITY– The Visayan Electric Company (VECO) will now be called the Visayan Electric. Chief Operating Officer Anton Mari Perdices announced their rebranding in a gathering with Cebu reporters on Tuesday, September 17. Visayan Electric will sport…

Aboitiz Group eyes rehabilitation of Buhisan Watershed

Irene R. Sino Cruz 08/28/2019

CEBU CITY, Philippines—The Aboitiz Group has committed to implement a multi-million rehabilitation project involving 150 hectares at the Buhisan Watershed. The project dubbed as the Cebu A-Park, is envisioned to be completed in five years and will…

Two boys trapped for four hours after ‘mansanitas’ tree fell on their gate, home in Brgy Cansojong

Doris C. Bongcac 08/03/2019

CEBU CITY, Philippines – Two boys aged 12 and 3-years-old were trapped inside their home located in an urban poor housing community in Barangay Cansojong, Talisay City for about four hours after a “mansanitas” tree fell on…

Police arrest swindler in Barangay Guadalupe

Alven Marie A. Timtim 07/12/2019

Cebu City, Philippines–A person who pretended to be an employee of an electric utility here was arrested by the police on Friday morning, July 12, 2019, in Barangay Guadalupe. Raymond Samson, 28, from Consolacion town, northern Cebu,…

Veco working on settling P200M in real property taxes owed to Cebu City gov’t

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 06/25/2019

CEBU CITY, Philippines — The Visayan Electric Company (Veco) owes the Cebu City government over P200 million in real property taxes which covers unpaid and previously unassessed electrical posts, transformers and other machineries. That is according to…

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