Rom­ney Thomas has been ap­point­ed as the new chair­man of the board of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Elec­tric­i­ty Com­mis­sion (T&TEC). 

The new board, which will serve for two years be­gin­ning April 12, was in­stalled dur­ing a brief cer­e­mo­ny at the Min­istry of Pub­lic Util­i­ties head of­fice in Port-of-Spain on Thurs­day. 

Dur­ing the cer­e­mo­ny, Min­is­ter of Pub­lic Util­i­ties Mar­vin Gon­za­les is­sued them a chal­lenge to work to­wards a sus­tain­able plan to strength­en the com­mis­sion’s fi­nan­cial po­si­tion so that it can con­tin­ue to pro­vide a re­li­able elec­tric­i­ty sup­ply to the coun­try. 

Ac­cord­ing to a re­lease from the min­istry yes­ter­day, Gon­za­les al­so ad­dressed the need to en­sure the ro­bust ex­e­cu­tion of projects un­der the Pub­lic Sec­tor In­vest­ment Pro­gramme and the im­por­tance of the con­tin­ued dig­i­ti­za­tion and au­toma­tion of the com­mis­sion’s op­er­a­tions.
He al­so not­ed that the con­tin­u­ous as­sess­ment of the pow­er dis­tri­b­u­tion grid must be car­ried out to en­sure its re­silience, es­pe­cial­ly in the face of cli­mate change and oth­er chal­lenges, and high­light­ed T&TEC’s role in dri­ving Gov­ern­ment’s thrust to­wards greater en­er­gy ef­fi­cien­cy and con­ser­va­tion in Trinidad and To­ba­go.

The re­lease said the board was al­so en­cour­aged to main­tain har­mo­nious part­ner­ships and col­lab­o­ra­tions with key stake­hold­ers, in­clud­ing the Reg­u­lat­ed In­dus­tries Com­mis­sion, for the im­prove­ment of cus­tomer ser­vice and care and the com­ple­tion of the rate re­view process, and the rel­e­vant work­ers’ unions, with the aim of re­solv­ing all out­stand­ing in­dus­tri­al re­la­tions is­sues. 

Apart from Thomas, the oth­er mem­bers are John Chap­man, An­drew Alves, Clif­ford Camp­bell, Char­maine Ca­ballero and Janet Richards, who were reap­point­ed, and the new­ly-ap­point­ed Raphael Ajod­hia and An­tho­ny Peyson, who will serve as the board’s deputy chair­man.