The State Electricity Company (CDEEE) has announced plans to install approximately 13,000 prepayment meters in the next few months to bring the total to almost 17,000 by the end of the year. The program seeks to reduce the number of low-income households on fixed payment plans or that were not paying for the service.
The three electricity distributors that come under the CDEEE, EdeNorte, EdeSur, and EdeEste currently have about 3,700 prepaid customers. The new customers will be added in the National District and in the southwestern region.
The prepayment meter installation program began in El Manguito in the National District in EdeSur’s concession area last year, before being extended to the neighborhoods of Sagrario Diaz, Esther Rosario and La Yuca. EdeEste has deployments in Villa Juana and Villas Agricolas, and EdeNorte in the Pontezuela community.
As well as installing prepaid meters, the companies are also rehabilitating the networks, including installing new poles and transformers.
In the next stage EdeEste will install approximately 1,900 prepay meters in the Borojol sector of the National District, and EdeSur will install over 11,000 prepay meters in the southwestern region. This region includes the community of Juancho, where some prepay meters are already in use and which had recorded losses of 9%, and the towns of Pedernales and Oviedo, which have losses ranging between 40% and 7%.
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