Utility Watch · electricity
Eleven cooperatives supply every city and municipality in the region, and 904,432 connections between them. They do not report interruptions the same way, and one of them does it properly. This section keeps what they publish next to what residents report, and says which is which.
All six provinces
Each page carries the utilities for that province, the municipalities they cover, and whatever has been recorded there so far.
The franchise map
Every one of the 114 cities and municipalities in Bicol is served by exactly one of these. That was checked both ways, so there are no gaps and nothing is claimed twice.
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| Utility | Province | LGUs | Connections | Regulator |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ALECO Albay Electric Cooperative |
Albay | 18 | 186,911 | NEA-EC National Electrification Administration |
| CANORECO Camarines Norte Electric Cooperative |
Camarines Norte | 12 | 102,289 | NEA-EC National Electrification Administration |
| CASURECO I Camarines Sur I Electric Cooperative |
Camarines Sur | 11 | 81,468 | NEA-EC National Electrification Administration |
| CASURECO II Camarines Sur II Electric Cooperative |
Camarines Sur | 10 | 107,076 | NEA-EC National Electrification Administration |
| CASURECO III Camarines Sur III Electric Cooperative |
Camarines Sur | 7 | 81,454 | NEA-EC National Electrification Administration |
| CASURECO IV Camarines Sur IV Electric Cooperative |
Camarines Sur | 9 | 58,137 | NEA-EC National Electrification Administration |
| FICELCO First Catanduanes Electric Cooperative |
Catanduanes | 11 | 51,441 | SPUG-EC Small power utilities group, island grid |
| MASELCO Masbate Electric Cooperative |
Masbate | 17 | 62,296 | SPUG-EC Small power utilities group, island grid |
| TISELCO Ticao Island Electric Cooperative |
Masbate | 4 | 13,685 | SPUG-EC Small power utilities group, island grid |
| SORECO I Sorsogon I Electric Cooperative |
Sorsogon | 8 | 66,526 | NEA-EC National Electrification Administration |
| SORECO II Sorsogon II Electric Cooperative |
Sorsogon | 7 | 93,149 | EC-CDA Cooperative Development Authority |
| All eleven | Six provinces | 114 | 904,432 |
Connections are not households. The figure is each utility’s own customer count, so a single meter can cover a family, a sari-sari store or a school. It is here because it is the only honest way to compare a small island system with a mainland cooperative ten times its size. It is not a population count and this page never uses it as one.
Checked 20 August 2026
All of these were opened on the same day, so this is a record of what was there rather than an impression. A utility with no entry has not been checked yet, and the table says so instead of guessing.
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| Utility | Channel | What was there |
|---|---|---|
| CASURECO I Camarines Sur |
On the open web checked 2026-08-20 |
Its own website, a dated archive of notices as ordinary web pages. Ten notices on the archive, newest dated 19 August 2026. Each names the affected barangays and municipalities, the time window and the reason. It also posts cancellations, which no other utility here does. This is the benchmark in Bicol, not the exception to complain about. source |
| SORECO II Sorsogon |
On its own site, stale checked 2026-08-20 |
Its own website, a fixed page rather than an archive. Two notices, both dated March 2026, so five months old at the time of checking. The page also carries an outage hotline, 0919 079 3680. Having the page and letting it go stale is its own kind of answer. source |
| ALECO Albay |
Facebook only checked 2026-08-20 |
A Facebook page plugin embedded on its website, nowhere on the open web. The notice text never reaches ALECO’s own server, it renders inside an iframe from facebook.com, so there is nothing on the site to read or search. Its own top menu carries ADVISORY and POWER INTERRUPTION, and both point at a page that returns 404 with the words Coming Soon. Largest utility in the region by connections, most closed channel of the three checked so far. source |
| CASURECO II Camarines Sur |
Not checked yet | Not established. Website exists. Channel not yet verified. source |
| CANORECO Camarines Norte |
Not checked yet | Not established. Not yet verified. |
| CASURECO III Camarines Sur |
Not checked yet | Not established. Website exists. Channel not yet verified. source |
| SORECO I Sorsogon |
Not checked yet | Not established. Not yet verified. |
| MASELCO Masbate |
Not checked yet | Not established. Not yet verified. |
| CASURECO IV Camarines Sur |
Not checked yet | Not established. Not yet verified. |
| FICELCO Catanduanes |
Not checked yet | Not established. Not yet verified. |
| TISELCO Masbate |
Not checked yet | Not established. Not yet verified. |
CASURECO I is the benchmark, not the exception. It posts each notice as an ordinary page on its own website, names the affected barangays, gives the window and the reason, and posts cancellations too. Any cooperative in Bicol could do the same thing tomorrow with the website it already has. That is the point of putting them side by side.
Add what you see
The form takes about 30 seconds and asks for no account number. Power interruption is the one category where a photo is optional, because you cannot photograph an absence of electricity.
Method
SAIFI and SAIDI need the number of customers interrupted per feeder per event. No cooperative here publishes that, so nothing on this site is called SAIFI or SAIDI.
needs per feeder counts
What is missing from the record is not the same as what did not happen. An area with no entries may simply have nobody reporting yet.
absence is not evidence
A record is marked confirmed at five or more reports from three or more households within 500 metres and 60 minutes. Below that it stays a single observation.
5 reports, 3 households
One thread with forty replies is one signal, never forty reports. We record the area, the time and the problem, never the person.
never a household
How to argue with this page. Every figure carries the source it came from and the date it was read. No motive is inferred anywhere: if an announcement states no reason, the record says not stated. Anything here can be disputed by anyone, including the cooperatives, through corrections.