Lesson Learned

Projects should continue to find new ways to plan for maintenance after the project ends.

Projects should continue to find new ways to plan for maintenance after the project ends. The evaluation found that access to spare parts and maintenance of the infrastructure were complex issues to manage. Parts to maintain the infrastructure are either European or need to be custom made, whereas parts from neighboring countries come from China and are not compatible. Partially this is an issue of sourcing, and partially an issue is the utility’s revenue problems.