Poor state of economy threatens our metering target —Ikeja Electric By Ediri Ejoh IKEJA Electric has raised the alarm over the impact of the country’s current economic crunch on its business while linking it to its inability to meet up with its metering project as planned. To this end, this constraint has prompted the management to alter its original meter roll-out plan. This came as the company lamented huge deficit in its books owing to customer debt portfolio of over N88 billion which have further hindered efforts to strengthen its infrastructure development. The company’s Communications Manager, Felix Ofulue, made this known in a media forum in Lagos. He stated that management has engaged local meter vendors to pursue its prepaid meter obligation to customers, adding that with the support of local meter vendors, the company has successfully metered almost all feeder and distribution transformers within its network which would help balance its estimated billing method. “The metered transformers and feeders will help determine the regularity of power supply to customers and will help to prepare bills based on the accurate power supply. So far, we have metered Maximum Demand Customers, MDCs, within the network and they are over 5,000. “Our metering project is challenged at the moment due to financial constraints and because we have to upgrade other supply infrastructure and ensure that the supply chain is not disrupted, there is need to deploy scarce resources in other areas of need so that the entire system does not collapse”, he explained. He, however, assured that Non-Maximum Demand Customers are being considered in the ongoing efforts, adding that at the moment, the company is stepping up efforts to complete metering exercise in Ikeja GRA. Ofulue complained about energy theft which, he said, is impacting on the company’s revenue and urged customers to settle their bills to enable it boost its operations. The post Poor state of economy threatens our metering target —Ikeja Electric appeared first on Vanguard News. from Vanguard News http://ift.tt/2u7h3Hf via Naijapounds

By Ediri Ejoh

IKEJA Electric has raised the alarm over the impact of the country’s current economic crunch on its business while linking it to its inability to meet up with its metering project as planned.

To this end, this constraint has prompted the management to alter its original meter roll-out plan.

This came as the company lamented huge deficit in its books owing to customer debt portfolio of over N88 billion which have further hindered efforts to strengthen its infrastructure development.

The company’s Communications Manager, Felix Ofulue, made this known in a media forum in Lagos.

He stated that management has engaged local meter vendors to pursue its prepaid meter obligation to customers, adding that with the support of local meter vendors, the company has successfully metered almost all feeder and distribution transformers within its network which would help balance its estimated billing method.

“The metered transformers and feeders will help determine the regularity of power supply to customers and will help to prepare bills based on the accurate power supply. So far, we have metered Maximum Demand Customers, MDCs, within the network and they are over 5,000.

“Our metering project is challenged at the moment due to financial constraints and because we have to upgrade other supply infrastructure and ensure that the supply chain is not disrupted, there is need to deploy scarce resources in other areas of need so that the entire system does not collapse”, he explained.

He, however, assured that Non-Maximum Demand Customers are being considered in the ongoing efforts, adding that at the moment, the company is stepping up efforts to complete metering exercise in Ikeja GRA.

Ofulue complained about energy theft which, he said, is impacting on the company’s revenue and urged customers to settle their bills to enable it boost its operations.

 

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