MDAs in Tema to switch over to pre-payment meters

Tema, June 11, GNA - All Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs)

within the Tema Region

would be provided with pre-payment meters as from July 1. Mr Felix Fiebor, Tema Regional Director of the Electricity Company o f Ghana (ECG), who disclosed

this at a meeting with representatives from the MDAs in Tema on Thursday,

said the move was to ensure

the efficient use of energy, in order to avoid waste. Mr Fiebor pointed out that the reduction in high levels of energy consumption in the country, would

not only help cut down expenditure on electricity by consumers, but it wo uld also save the nation from

making expensive investment in generation plants. He said the shift to the use of pre-payment meters would not only he lp them to manage energy

consumption, but it would also help conserve energy, and manage the usage of power in a judicious

manner. The exercise, he said, was a policy directive from the Ministry of Energy, and that all MDAs across the

country would be covered by the end of November. During open forum, he assured ECG's valued customers that their complaints would be promptly

responded to.