{"id":34624,"date":"2017-05-18T06:42:40","date_gmt":"2017-05-18T06:42:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/reg-gets-new-ceo\/"},"modified":"2017-05-20T09:57:58","modified_gmt":"2017-05-20T09:57:58","slug":"reg-gets-new-ceo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/reg-gets-new-ceo\/","title":{"rendered":"REG gets new CEO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{In what is seen as a move to strengthen competitiveness of the energy sector and meeting the EDPRS II targets of generating 563MW by 2018 and connect 70% of the households, the government has ushered in administrative changes that have seen the former CEO of Rwanda Energy Group (REG), Jean Bosco Mugiraneza,  replaced by Ron Weiss an  Israeli national.}<\/p>\n<p>The REG chairman board of directors, Prof. Manasseh Mbonye has told IGIHE that Mugiraneza has been replaced because he is likely to be appointed in other duties.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe board has replaced him with a new CEO. It is usual,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p>Ron Weiss was the vice president of Israel Electric Corporation\/IEC). He became visible when Israel Electric Corporation signed cooperation agreements with REG to support Rwanda address the challenge of electricity shortage. <\/p>\n<p>The agreements incorporated clauses of training REG employees in construction, renovating, and resource management, making reports among other various areas in connection to electricity in Rwanda. <\/p>\n<p>Prof. Mbonye explained that the new CEO was approved after outperforming others in an interview. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe found him with enough expertise with the potential of helping us attain our targets. We selected a person with extra-ordinary technical and managerial skills,\u201d he said.  <\/p>\n<p>He explained that Ron Weiss who led one of the strongest energy Corporation in Israel has started duties with the support of the outgoing CEO. <\/p>\n<p>Mugiraneza has led REG since its inception in 2014. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-20097 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/mediamugiraneza-02e00.jpg\" alt=\"Jean Bosco Mugiraneza has led REG since its inception in 2014. \" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{In what is seen as a move to strengthen competitiveness of the energy sector and meeting the EDPRS II targets of generating 563MW by 2018 and connect 70% of the households, the government has ushered in administrative changes that have seen the former CEO of Rwanda Energy Group (REG), Jean Bosco Mugiraneza, replaced by Ron [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[72,75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-34624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-featured-news-home","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34624\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34624"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=34624"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=34624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}