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ZETDC Launches Prepaid, Smart Meter Rollout In Bulawayo

1 year agoSun, 19 Feb 2023 09:50:22 GMT
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ZETDC Launches Prepaid, Smart Meter Rollout In Bulawayo

The Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company (ZETDC) on Thursday launched the extension of its prepaid, smart meter roll-out programme in Bulawayo, reported ZimLive.

ZESA customers will be transferred from the postpaid meters to the prepaid and smart meters.

ZETDC Western Region general manager LIoyd Jaji said this will maximise revenue collection and ease the country’s power challenges.

Addressing stakeholders at a regional launch ceremony in Bulawayo Thursday, Jaji said:

This is a move that forms key building blocks toward a smart grid.

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The step has come at a time when the government of Zimbabwe, through ZESA, is addressing issues of revenue assurance, debt collection and inefficiencies in revenue collection among other objectives.

This is also to address the security of electricity supply as well as make the utility more customer-centric.

He said all ZESA customers will be moved to the prepaid and smart meters, with the power utility having already procured the balance of required meters. Added Jaji:

The Western region almost has a 200 000 customer base with a total of 135 000 installed pre-paid meters.

Thus, giving us a balance of 40 363 points still to be installed.

The region will also witness the installation of 800 smart meters for high-priority customers and those companies with negative debt history.

The region will also be rolling out pre-paid meters to over 36 000 customers who for a long time have been on looped connections, that is load limited customers.

These load-limited customers date back to the time of the colonial era.

The utility is expectant that by end of the second quarter, every client on the post-paid platform would have been moved to the pre-paid system.

In that regard, installation on domestic load-limited points will in the process be modified to facilitate pre-paid meter installations.

The programme, which is nationwide, was first rolled out in Harare last month.

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