AdminAba Power, Nigeria’s newest electricity distribution company (DisCo), is leading four local and foreign firms to assemble smart electricity meters in Aba, the Abia State economic nerve centre.
Mrs. Agatha Nnaji, Group Managing Director of the Geometric Power group, the Aba Power parent company, made this known when the Abia State House of Assembly on Power and Public Utilities visited the company’s headquarters in the Osisioma Industrial Layout.
Join our WhatsApp Channel“The four companies will produce the meters in our premises here,” said Mrs. Nnaji while making a 3D-model presentation before the state lawmakers led by Hon Aaron Uzodike.
Speaking on the economic benefits of the initiative, Mrs Nnaji stated that assembling the electricity meters in Aba would create about 35,000 jobs.
“Together with our partners, we help the country save scarce foreign reserves and help transfer technology to the Nigerian people,” she added.
The firms to assemble the meters include Kayz Consortium, led by Prince Kalu, and Eve Metering Company, headed by Soji Olagunji, a Nigerian entrepreneur based in China.
Others are Chint Metering and DCESN Metering, which are based in China.
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Kayz is set to start production this month and followed by Eve.
While Chint, DCESN, and Kayz are going to assemble 20,000 meters each, Eve will deliver 100,000.
Head of the metering team at Aba Power, Engineer Alfred Atenega, said the goal of the company is to “deliver 20,000 prepaid meters to our customers every month so that every customer will have a smart meter within 12 months.”
It is not clear whether the four meter companies will produce exclusively for Aba Power or also for the other 11 DisCos in the country. However, a source working for one of the firms who asked not to named because he is not authorized to speak to the media on the matter, said “we are likely to start providing only for Aba Power for now and later produce for the other electricity companies in our nation because they all need quality smart meters.
“I don’t think Professor Bart Nnaji, the Geometric Power chief executive, and his team will object to making such meters made from their premises available to their peers.”
Chair of the Abia State Assembly Power and Public Utilities Committee expressed satisfaction with Geometric Power’s innovative approach to the electricity business, and urged the power firm to provide electricity to communities that have been without supply for several years.
With the continuous repair of several damaged and abandoned facilities in the Aba Ring-fenced Area, which encompasses nine of the 17 local government areas in Abia State, “the neglected and underserved communities that were forgotten for several years,” revealed Aba Power Managing Director Ugo Opiegbe.
Hon Uzodike also urged Aba Power to work out an arrangement to accommodate customers in arrears of payment, to which Engr Blessing Ogbe, Aba Power’s chief operating officer, responded, saying that such an arrangement is already in place.
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He stated: “We understand the burden on customers and have made room for instalment-based payment.
“Customers who had earlier buried their customers due to billing concerns are now returning to reactivate them because the meters have brought transparency.”
Another member of the legislative committee, Hon Stephen Ucheonye Akachukwu, said that his colleagues “have been interacting with Aba residents, and the feedback has been overwhelmingly positive.
“The people are excited over the transparency the smart meters bring.”
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