The Abuja Electricity Distribution
Company (AEDC) said it would start free installation of prepaid meters pilot
scheme in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) in February.
Mr Abimbola Odubiyi, the Executive
Director of the company's Regulatory and Stakeholders Relations, said this on
Sunday in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN)
in Abuja.
According to him, AEDC in 2015
installed 5,000 free prepaid meters to customers in Minna, Niger State and
would in February 2016, commence another installation of 1,250 free prepaid
meters to customers in the FCT.
He said the installations were pilot
schemes and the contractors that handled the Minna project were given 5,000
meters but that of FCT would be given
1,250 meters.
Odubiyi said the meters would be used
as a test-case so as to ascertain the efficiency of the projects.
He explained that the new energy
tariff that would come into effect on Feb.1 would last for 10 years, noting
that during the years, it was expected that energy tariffs must come down and
the sector stabilised.
He listed the installation of 400
brand new transformers, building of new customers care centres in Abuja, new
billing centres, vending centres and improvement in staff welfare as some of
the achievements of AEDC since it joined the energy sector in 2003.
According to him, there has been
great improvement in power in the FCT and across the country since the
privatisation of the power sector in 2013.
He then urged customers of AEDC to
always pay their energy bills when due so that the company could serve them
better.
He cautioned against vandalism of
installations so as not to jeopardise the nation’s energy sector. (NAN reports)
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