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Benjamin Dikki at BD Power Conference

 

  • Looking at power privatisation, what is the journey so far knowing that BPE has played a key role in the privatisation process

The good news is that we are making progress, the Discos are improving infrastructure by changing cables, changing transformers and stabilizing the power supply to their own last man users, the customers. The generation companies are also doing the normal turn around maintenances. Making sure that the machines that have not had turnaround maintenance since they were built about 50 years ago, they are currently doing the maintenance for Kanji and so on. So generation is stabilizing also and they are making provision for new generation capacities. On the transmission side also, a lot of initiatives are being done to improve the transmission…