The Benin Electricity Distribution Company (BEDC), on Friday said that it had so far installed a total of 2,500 units of prepaid meters for its customers in Edo, Delta, Ekiti and Ondo.
Funke Osibodu, the Managing Director of BEDC, made the disclosure in Benin during an interaction with journalists on the activities of the company in 2019.
Represented by Edo State Head, Mr Abel Enechaziam, Osibodu said the company’s target was to install 10,000 units of meters for its customers in 2019.
“But due to some issues, it was not able to achieve the target, but metering of customers will improve considerably this year,” she said.
Osibodu assured that the installation of meters would help to curb estimated billing in its frachise states.
She said that as part of efforts to bring electricity to all the communities in its franchise states, as at October 2019, the company successfully connected 48 communities to the national grid.
“Twenty communities were connected in Delta, 16 in Edo, six in Ondo and six in Ekiti,” Osibodu said.
According to her, to improve electricity distribution and enhance service delivery to its customers, BEDC commissioned 32 transformers and eight new injection substations.
Osibodu explained that the company’s target in 2020 would be to ensure that customers under its jurisdiction enjoyed not less than nine hours of power supply daily.
