Ikeja Electric targets 15,000 meters monthly

Ikeja Electric, one of the nation’s electricity distribution companies, has said it is targeting at least 15,000 customers monthly in its ongoing prepaid metering programme.

The company said the metering programme had started in all its six business units, adding that transformers and feeders were also being metered.

The Head, Corporate Communications, Ikeja Electric, Mr. Felix Ofulue, told our correspondent on the sidelines of a recent metering activity, “Our target is to be able to meter at least 10,000 to 15,000 customers on a monthly basis. So, it is a huge investment. Now, we have about 65 to 70 groups that are metering in various areas of our network.

“What Ikeja Electric is trying to do is to ensure that no customer will be left out at the end of the day. But the issue is that we are carrying out this metering activity feeder by feeder, and transformer by transformer. We will be able to measure the quantum of energy that is passing through each feeder and transformer.”

He said all the customers that had been metered were attached to one transformer or the other.

“But we might not be able to finish the metering of all customers at the same time. It is a gradual process; we have captured all their data. We have all the data of those customers that we are giving estimated billing to in our system and we are using the data to give them meters across all the units.

“We have six business units across Ikeja Electric network – Ikorodu, Ikeja, Shomolu, Oshodi, Akowonjo and Abule Egba. We make sure we spread whatever we are doing across all the business units so that the customers that we have metered will be able to tell others that truly we are metering. It is a gradual process, and we are going to make sure everybody is metered.