Mr Babatunde Fashola, the Minister of Power, Works and Housing, has unfolded a 13-point agenda to drive efforts towards enhancing power supply in the country.
Fashola revealed the plans on Monday in Abuja during his maiden meeting with power generation, distribution and transmission companies, and other stakeholders.
He added that the agenda was drawn up to ensure effective monitoring of the sector. He also 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.
Fashola also revealed that President Muhammadu Buhari has approved that all stakeholders in the sector should hold monthly meetings on issues concerning the industry.
“The meeting would be rotated among the various GENCOs, DISCOs, TCN and other stakeholders across the country,” Fashola revealed.
“All decisions reached in such meetings would be binding on all the stakeholders.”
In order to keep the cost of hosting the meetings low, the companies were advised to pull up resources required to hold the meetings.
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Apart from representatives of the management of each stakeholders who would take decision on behalf of their companies at the meetings, lawyers, engineers, planners and other stakeholders would be invited to attend and a communiqué would be prepared at the end of each meeting on concrete decisions reached to address challenges in the sector.
