Electricity service

Letters

ELECTRICITY services when properly harnessed and safely distributed for consumption can raise even the poorest nation to a new level of prosperity.
Both fossil and other renewal energy sources are plentiful in Papua New Guinea and they can be harnessed according to growing demand which depend on government, individuals and businesses who are trying to diversify their business interests in the perfect competitive business domains in the microeconomic sector of the national economy.
Investing in renewable energy sources is a must, because their products are being continuously supported by investments in research in various sources of renewable energy sources by world-wide industrialised countries.
The following issues are vital in getting PPL ready for the challenge (vision) offered by Prime Minister and Tari-Pori MP James Marape.
He has got the strategy and a vision and looking through various lens like political, economic, social, environmental, legal, security, religion, technology, regulatory and demographic to just mention few.
PNG Power Ltd is a sleeping revenue generating giant in Papua New Guinea.
PMJM has already made known his desire on electricity tariff, he want an affordable rates which the consumer can afford.
PPL is to fund any anticipated cut in electricity charges.
Many options are available to PPL to do that now rather than waiting for competition in the power production industry which we are moving toward as 10 producers has been reported to enter the competition, it means that the government will lift up all regulatory interventions in the monopolised power production industry to give way for competition which may be encountered into but inheriting a range of technical difficulties in transmission and distribution sectors compounded with law and order trends in Papua New Guinea regional power grids.
PPL is a sleeping giant for revenue generation in Papua New Guinea; and why is that not performing to expectations in generating revenue for the Government for its share as the proprietor and PPL for its operations.
Is it because of too much political interference, corruption in the power supply industry or we lack both technical and administrative ability to run the power supply industry.

Concerned Citizen- Rossel Is