JEDC Urges Customers To Accept Prepaid Meters

The Marketing Manager, Bauchi Trading Zone of Jos Electricity Distribution Company (JEDC), Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar, last Sunday observed that most customers in the state were reluctant to install prepaid Meters (PPM) inspite of its advantages.
Abubakar told newsmen in Bauchi that some of the customers had the misconception that with PPM, they would spend more in electricity.
“Most customers do not have ideas of proper energy management. With PPM, one can determine his or her energy consumption by taking several measures to avoid waste.
“If accepted by all customers, the PPM will proffer solution to over 99 per cent of disagreement between distribution companies and customers because the major area of friction is always on billing”, he said.
He stated that plans were in the pipeline to ensure the metering of all customers by 2018 but added that people must embrace the PPM for the target to be achieved.