Eko Disco Restates Commitment To Meter Roll-Out
The Eko Electricity Distribution Company (EKEDC) has restated its commitment to ongoing meter roll-out and network intensification programme.
The company’s Chief Operations Officer, Mr. Sam Nwaire gave the commitment during a town hall meeting with customers of the company under Lekki District in Lagos.
Nwaire who stood in for the MD/CEO said the meter roll-out plan was on course and expressed optimism that all unmetered customers of the company would be reached within the stipulated time.
He said since the cost involved was so huge, it was not possible for all customers to be metered at the same time, appealing to those yet to be reached in the meter roll-out plan to exercise some patience as no customer would be left out in the end.
Responding to a complaint by one of the participants at the town hall meeting that the use of estimated billing for unmetered customers does not correspond with the volume of energy supplied Nwaire said the company has an established billing methodology approved by the industry regulator for billing unmetered customers.
This, he said, was usually based on a number of factors which include the customer’s consumption pattern over time and availability of power supply within the particular month for which the customer was billed.
The EKDC Chief disclosed that in order to ensure a just and fair assessment of customers’ consumption, the company has embarked on an energy audit and customer enumeration programme aimed at ascertaining true energy consumption of all customers with or without meters.
