Sorsogon City, Aug. 1 -- The Department of Energy (DOE) assured Friday that the power supply in Siquijor would return to normal before the end of the year.

In a press conference following an activity here, DOE Secretary Sharon Garin said that the government is committed to restoring electricity in the affected areas.

"This is a repeated concern of the President; he does not want the people of Siquijor to suffer because of inefficiencies in the electricity sector. We have set a deadline: by the end of the year, power supply should return to normal, and outages should no longer last four to eight hours," Garin said.

She added that necessary measures are in place to meet the deadline.

"We are working on improving the looping distributio...