The Benin Electricity Distribution Company (BEDC) has, through its new payment channels, metering programme and Customer Complaint Unit, resolved over 50,572 customer matters, The Nationreports.
Corporate customers on its network have also begun to enjoy better and quality power supply, the firm said in a statement. It added;
“We have deployed new payment channels, such as Point of Sales (PoS), web-based payment, bank payments, Automated Teller Machine (ATM) and scratch card payment. We have recorded successful metering of all 33kv outgoing feeders in the newly constructed Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) stations in Asaba, Oghara and Omotosho”.
On metering, BEDC said the number of customers that have pre-paid meters installed in their premises have risen to 43, 612, adding that 47 injection substations and 500 distribution transformers have been installed to provide relief to overloaded transformers and injection substations.
The utility firm said it also constructed 10 dedicated transformers for key customers and replaced failed transformers, with additional injection of 398 distribution transformers.
Source: Energy Mix Report News
