Power Generation: Expert Seeks Stakeholders’ Synergy

As part of measures to promote research, training and development in the power sector, an energy, expert, Engineer Isaac Adekanya, has urged stronger synergy between the government, institutions and the industry.
The expert who spoke with The Tide in an interview said the problems in the Power would be drastically solved if key stakeholders deployed resources on a concerted note and develop a more productive and indigenous approach towards the power sector.
He urged the federal government to generate more energy to serve the power needs of the people and called for total liberation of the power sector to allow room for a professionally and institutionally driven power sector delivery.
He attributed the low turn-out in the power sector service delivery to the prioritisation of political and commercial interests on the allocation of the DISCOS, TRANCOS, and GENCOS, at the expense of professionalism and delivery capacity .
Adekanya called for more drastic reforms in the power sector, stressing that power generation should be liberalised for intense private sector involvement to provide the power needs of the people.
He also recommended that more attention should be centred on transmission of power, with an adroit check on energy theft and other related challenges.
He said, “ experts in the power sector should be given the opportunity to make inputs in the formulation of policies and implementation in the power sector.
A system in which power sector reforms are devoid of the active participation of the experts in the sector can not bring out the best results, power sector is service sector and efficient economic expansion and enterprise development depend on it.”

By: Taneh Beemene