Pre-paid metering

By Eileen Cox

Continued from last week

For the benefit of all customers of Guyana Power and Light Incorporated (GPL), we publish the concluding paragraphs of the letter in which Acting Chief Executive Officer of the company Bharat Dindyal explained Pre-paid metering. The opening paragraphs were published in Consumer Concerns, Sunday Stabroek, March 23, 2008. Here are the final paragraphs:

“A. As I mentioned before, GPL held its first stakeholder consultation in December 2006 and the Guyana Consumers Association was invited. Over twenty stakeholders were invited including the PUC, Chambers of Commerce Manufacture’s Association, Bar Association, various Consumer Groups, Office of the Prime Minister etc.

“We have not aggressively marketed the introduction of this new technology as yet as we were trying to secure financing. We have now done so and would be starting the public education progress shortly. We have never taken our customers for granted and don’t propose to do so now.