Eko
Electricity Distribution CompanyPlc (EKEDC) is set to commence a large
roll out of smart prepaid meters to its customers in partnership with
Mojec International Limited, Nigeria’s leading indigenous Smart Meters
manufacturing company.
This was made know recently by the management of Eko Electricity Distribution Company Plc (EKEDC) during a tour of its Central Store located at Ijora Olapa Area of Lagos State to inspect the thousands of Mojec smart prepaid meters in stock and ready for immediate deployment to yearning customers.
This was made know recently by the management of Eko Electricity Distribution Company Plc (EKEDC) during a tour of its Central Store located at Ijora Olapa Area of Lagos State to inspect the thousands of Mojec smart prepaid meters in stock and ready for immediate deployment to yearning customers.
According to
the Managing Director, Electricity Distribution Company Plc (EKEDC), Engineer
Oladele Amoda, the DISCO is ready under the new meter roll out plan to ensure
that all customers within its network are provided with smart prepaid meters in
line with the objective to ensure that both old and unmetered customers within
its network are adequately metered.
“This new
prepaid meters roll out plan is a massive one, as you can see, we have several
thousands of smart meters in our store and our engineers have already commenced
installation to the customers. We want to assure all our customers that we
would not relent in our effort to ensure all customers are provided with
prepaid meters with a few month” he said.
Amoda assured
the customers of the company’s commitment to completely eradicate estimated
billings which he noted, is one of the major issues in customers
dissatisfaction and distrust of the DISCO’s under the old PHCN. He also
restated the DISCOs resolve to constantly improve the reliability of the
distribution network and enhance consumer’s satisfaction.
He further
commended Mojec International Limited for its resolve and commitment as a
trusted partner to the utility as well as its provision of world-class quality
meters, which are now being deployed to customers.
Also speaking
at the event, the Managing Director, Mojec International Limited, Ms. Chantelle
Abdul, explained that Mojec International prepaid meters are of international
standard and are tropicalized for the Nigeria environment to withstand the
weather condition such as temperature, humidity, meter tampering and energy
theft.
Ms. Abdul
stated that the meters manufactured in Nigeria by Indigenous companies have
been specifically designed and crafted to withstand the extreme weather of time
and humidity condition as well as theft situation peculiar to the Nigerian
environment.
“Whereas meters
produced locally are stronger and better suited for the Nigerian utilities than
most of the imported meters. To build most of the meters being imported into
Nigeria, Nigerian companies had to give feedback to foreign manufacturers to
produce meters suitable for the Nigerian environment while meters deployed in
Nigeria are made specifically for the Nigerian market.
Fielding
question from the media on the quality Assurance measures put in place by Mojec
to ensure that meters meets requisite standards, She explained that the quality
process of Mojec ensures that products are put through different stages of
random testing and calibration during the production process and are later sent
to the Meter Testing Stations under EMSL for further testing.
“Mojec range of
smart prepaid meters are pretested and confirmed to be of the best quality
before they are deployed into the field across Nigeria. This is why all our
meters are certified for optimal performance and we provide a 10-year warranty
on all meters made by Mojec. At Mojec, we deliberately set a very higher
quality standard for ourselves with about 25 per cent above the industry
standard” She said.
Ms. Abdul
commended Eko Electricity Distribution Company Plc (EKEDC)for the confidence it
repose in Mojec International Limited on the quality of its meters and for the
bold step taking in the industry to eliminate estimated billing and ensure that
all its customers are metered. She the pledged her company’s support and
commitment to the EKEDC in its quest to ensure that Eko Disco rolls out over
100,000 meters to customers by the close of 2016.
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