Today, Tuesday, Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh held a meeting with the head of the Audit Bureau, Khaled Shakshak, the ministers of planning, the state for prime minister’s affairs, the state for communication and political affairs, the director of the Sovereign Sector Oversight Department at the State Audit Bureau, and the directors of the General Electricity Company’s departments.
During his meeting at the company’s headquarters, Dbeibeh stressed that what the government has accomplished in the electricity file is not sufficient, stressing the government’s keenness to provide more in order to ensure the stability of the network and accommodate the increasing expansion in the consumption of electric energy.
For his part, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the General Electricity Company, Mohamed Al-Mashai, presented a presentation of the company’s efforts to confront the summer peak, praising the Prime Minister’s efforts and his daily follow-up to the company’s plan to implement 22 major overhauls that added 1,550 megawatts to the network, and his approval of a project to supply and install modern meters according to Organized periods of time, which contributed to reducing consumption by about 204 megawatts during the summer peak.
In turn, the head of the Audit Bureau, Khaled Shakshak, praised the efforts made by the public company in order to raise the quality of the performance of the electrical network, stressing the support of the Audit Bureau for all programs and projects submitted by the company according to the approved plan.