ABUJA, JULY 14, 2016 – The Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC) on Thursday said it would roll out 117,000 prepaid meters to its customers, this year.
Mr Neil Croucher, the Managing Director of AEDC, said this while launching the sensitisation awareness campaign of free prepaid meters for FCT residents in Abuja.
According to him, the prepaid meters will help consumers to monitor and know how they used their electricity.
Croucher, represented by the Director Commercial Services of the company, Mr Ernest Mupwaya, said installation of prepaid meters would provide convenience to the customers as they would know how they used their energy.
He said the company would improve on its platform of vending system to its customers, adding that the company had established pay points where customers would buy electricity units.
He also said that the company had engaged supervenders and other companies that were procuring energy in bulk and re-selling to AEDC’s customers.
He said this was to bring convenience to the consumers.
The managing director explained that presently the company had 150 physical points where customers could recharge their energy even in the middle of the night.
He said consumers could use android phones and internet facilities, among others , to vend or recharge their power without physically traveling far to recharge their points, anytime.
He noted that with this facility, AEDC would now roll out many meters to the public, adding that the essence of the road show was to sensitise the public on the new development.
Croucher said that the company was giving customers 15 meters every day but had now increased it to 4000 meters.
He added that before the end of the two-year mandate given by the Federal Government to distribution companies to meter all their customers, AEDC would have “metered’’ all its customers.
He noted that AEDC had so far metered 45, 000 of its consumers.
