City of lights in the dark

In spite of the violent Typhoon Hato that hit the city yesterday not all casinos in town shut down their operations, a note from Union Gaming said yesterday.
The brokerage firm contradicted several media reports claiming that all casinos had been closed due to the typhoon.
‘We believe that many, but not all, of the casinos inside flagship properties were operating – albeit at diminished capacity in some cases – as of late afternoon,’ the note read.
Casinos, which take on large amounts of power to keep running – Macau has just literally been labelled the ‘brightest city in the world’ this week – also rely on generators to back up power outages.
The Gaming Inspection and Co-ordination Bureau (DICJ) issued a statement yesterday urging casinos located in parts of the city which have been affected by power cuts to cease gaming operations in order to ensure the safety of customers and staff.
Companhia de Eletricidade de Macau (CEM) also urged customers to limit usage until power could be restored.
Near noontime yesterday, a failure of the power supply cable from Zhuhai to Macau caused the city to black out, according to information released by CEM via mobile message.
Yesterday evening, the local power supplier said in another message to customers that ‘with the typhoon impacting the Mainland’s power supply capacity to Macau the local power supply is unable to be fully restored,’ claiming further that power facilities have also been flooded in some areas of the city.
Some 82 per cent of Macau’s power in 2016 was imported from Mainland China.
Reports attributed the power cuts in Macau yesterday to an extensive shutdown in the city of Zhuhai, north of Macau, South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported.
Following yesterday’s typhoon, Union Gaming said it expected gross gaming revenue (GGR) growth to take ‘a couple of basis points hit,’ something which the brokerage said ‘could easily become notably worse should power supply issues remain overnight and into the next day [today].’