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| 2nd Interim Technical Committee Meeting 2007-04-24, Manila, Philippines The 2nd Meeting of the Interim Technical Committee with the nominated Members representatives was held, in Manila, Philippines. The Meeting was jointly organized by National Power Corporation (NPC), National Transmission Corporation (TransCo), and Manila Electric Company (Meralco). Datuk Md. Sidek Ahmad, Senior VP for Operations of Tenaga Nasional Berhad (TNB), Malaysia, presided over the meeting as Chairman. During this meeting the Committee Chairman presented the Action Plan, which was one of the outputs of the Interim Executive Team during its meeting in Singapore. The Meeting adopted the Action Plan as proposed. The Meeting has discussed and finalized the proposed amendments to the Technical Committee By-Laws, which was also one of the outputs of the Interim Executive Team during its meeting on March 5, 2007 in Singapore. The Meeting adopted the proposed amendments of the By-Laws to be presented to the Council for approval. Another main subject of the adopted Action Plan was the Identification of Areas of Study for 2007-2012. The Chairman pointed out that in determining areas of study, the topics should be broad enough to account for many concerns in the electricity supply industries of the member countries/utilities. The topics should also be substantive to encourage all the 17 member countries to participate in the meetings. The Chairman also stressed that there is a need for all initiatives of the Technical Committee to have high representation and that multilateral projects should be prioritized so as to approximate common problems among the member countries/utilities. Redundancy of topics already studied by other organizations (e.g., HAPUA) should also be avoided. The Meeting adopted the following five (5) macro topics: 1. Technology Development for the Power Sector 2. Asset Management · System Performance 3. Markets and Customer Relationship Management 4. Environmental Issues and Energy Efficiency 5. Industry Restructuring and Deregulation · Regulatory Issues The Secretary General will circulate to all Members the 5 identified macro topics above and Members are requested to identify micro topics of interest under each of the macro topics. For purposes of clarity, Members should elaborate on their suggested micro-topics to include description and scope. From the submissions, the Secretary General shall then come up with a collated list, for voting of members according to importance in order to identify prioritization of projects. The prioritized projects will then be presented to the Council for approval. |