The Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr Babatunde Fashola, has unveiled a 13-point agenda to drive efforts towards enhancing power supply in the country on Monday.
Fashola said in the meeting with power generation, distribution and transmission companies, and other stakeholders which held in Abuja that the agenda was drawn up to ensure effective monitoring of the sector.
The minister stated that 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 offtake, 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, the President 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.
The minister stated that various companies and stakeholders would be represented by a management member each saddled with the 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 team up and 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 will always issue a communiqué at the end of every meeting on steps taken to address challenges in the sector.
