AYV News, September 2, 2024
Chairman of the Presidential Initiative on Climate Change, Renewable Energy and Food Security, Dr. Kandeh Kolleh Yumkella has been appointed by President Dr. Julius Maada Bio to Chair Energy Governance Coordination Group.
Dr. Yumkella is to chair the Group, constituted by President Bio as a vehicle to ensure coherence and effective information sharing and coordination within the energy sector.
The Group is specially and strategically tasked with functions including but not limited to the provision of guidance to entities within the energy sector, tackling of immediate and short-term challenges and provision of guidance in the design and roll out of sector investment promotion initiatives.
The Group comprises the Deputy Ministers of Energy l &II, Minister of Finance, CEO of Millennium Challenge Corporation and Chairmen of Electricity Distribution and Supply Authority (EDSA), Electrical Generation and Transmission Company (EGTC) and the Electricity and Water Regulatory Commission (EWRC).
Dr. Yumkella is expected to bring his impressive level of knowledge and experience in the domain of energy governance to positively bear on and or leverage Sierra Leone’s energy potentials and reform endeavours.
