Abuja residents to get free prepaid meters

The Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC) has announced that it would commence installation of prepaid meters pilot scheme at no charge in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) in February.

Mr Abimbola Odubiyi, the Executive Director of the company’s Regulatory and Stakeholders Relations, disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja.

He said that AEDC installed 5,000 free prepaid meters to customers in Minna, Niger State last year. He said the exercise will extend to customers in the FCT beginning from February 2016, where it is expected another installation of 1,250 free prepaid meters will be carried out. 

Odubiyi said the exercise was to help ascertain the efficiency of the project. He further explained that the new tariff would last for 10 years but expected energy tariffs to come down as the sector is stabilized. would be used as a test-case so as to ascertain the efficiency of the projects. 

The Executive Director encouraged customers of AEDC to always pay their energy bills promptly to enable the company to give them quality service.