Fashola unfolds 13-point agenda on power.

The Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr
Babatunde Fashola, on Monday unfolded a 13-point
agenda to drive efforts towards enhancing power
supply in the country.
Fashola said in Abuja during his maiden meeting with
power generation, distribution and transmission
companies, and other stakeholders that the agenda
was drawn up to ensure effective monitoring of the
sector.

The minister said the agenda involves continuous
public engagement on tariff collection, debts, power
generation, maintenance, ancillary services, dispatch
orders and discipline.

Other areas include gas requirement and constraints,
transmission constraints, 33KV load off take,
imbalances-locations of excess, overload safety,
service quality, new captive and embedded
generation, franchising and other issues relevant to
the growth of the sector.

According to Fashola, President Muhammadu Buhari
has approved that all stakeholders in the sector
should hold monthly meetings on issues concerning
the industry.

He said that the meeting would be rotated among
the various GENCOs, DISCOs, TCN and other
stakeholders across the country.
Fashola said that all decisions reached in such
meetings would be binding on all the stakeholders.
In this respect, the minister stated that the various
companies and stakeholders would each be
represented by a management member with
authority to take decision on behalf of their
companies.
He explained that in order to minimise the cost of
hosting the meetings, the companies were advised to
jointly pull up resources required to hold the
meetings.
The minister further said the meetings would also
involve lawyers, engineers, planners and other
stakeholders, adding that the ministry would issue a
communiqué at the end of each meeting on steps
taken to address challenges in the sector.



Source:The Nation Online

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