The task force said the board should stick to policy making and delegate the operational decision to the management and must limit its activities to duly called meetings and refrain from day to day operations. It added although PPUV had a plan in replacing the generating units, but when the plan faltered it had no alternative plan.
The Task Force at the same time recommended that” PPUC allow the blending of fuel cost to the consumers.”It added that the board and management of PPUC must immediately procure two units of two megawatts generators to increase the standby capacity, to give the company time to rehabilitate the aging Malakal Power Plant.These were among the recommendations and findings cited in the task force’s preliminary report.In its findings, the task force said that PPUC has no preventive maintenance plan and that there is lack of communication between the corporate headquarter and power plant management on the parts that should be ordered.It said , this led to the current situation of non-operational generators.The task force also recommended that the power plant in Ngerulmud power capacity should be moved to PPUC so that excess capacity can be made available which will allow PPUC to rehabilitate the downed generators. The task force also recommended that consumers with over 90 days of account payablemust be converted to prepaid meters.The task force is chaired by Patrick U. Tellei;and the rest will be composed of Minister Public Infrastructure, Industries and Commerce Jackson Ngiraingas, Sen. Paul Ueki, Del. Gibson Kanai; Joshua Koshiba; and Ken Uehara. The task force was created after occurrences of power outages affecting several parts of the country.PPUC said the outages were result of the maintenance work being conducted to the aging engines at the power plant.The task force will be coming out with a final report on March 23.
