ECG ORDERS 196,000 PREPAID METRES FOR DISTRIBUTION (BACKPAGE)

Story: Michael Donkor & Jasmine Afari-Mintah

ABOUT 196,000 prepaid meters have been ordered by the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) for installation throughout the country as part of the company’s programme to switch over from credit meters to prepaid ones.
In line with the exercise, the ECG has already installed 45,000 prepaid meters in some parts of the country.
The beneficiary areas of the first phase of the change over are Koforidua, which has had 15,000 pre-paid meters installed; Ho, 9,600; Tema, 15,000, with 6,000 being installed in the area around Korle-Bu.
The Managing Director of the ECG, Mr Jude Adu-Amankwah, who disclosed this in an interview in Accra, said all households in Accra would have their meters changed to prepaid ones by November next year.
He explained that the change-over exercise was put on a hold as a result of the introduction of new electricity tariffs,
saying the resumption of the exercise began with the installation of 6,000 units in and around Korle-Bu.
Mr Adu-Amankwah said upon the arrival of the new consignment of meters, the ECG would install between 600 and 800 of them every day.
He said the meters had been customised to meet ECG’s peculiar requirements, while the company’s vendor stations had been networked.
He expressed the hope that with the introduction of the new tariffs, the ECG would deliver quality services to its numerous customers.