Aba Power, Four Others to Assemble Smart Meters Locally 

ABA Power, Nigeria’s newest electricity distribution company (DisCo), is leading four companies to assemble smart electricity meters in Aba, the Abia State economic hub centre.

The Group Managing Director of the Geometric Power group, the Aba Power parent company, Mrs. Agatha Nnaji, disclosed this when the Abia State House of Assembly on Power and Public Utilities visited the company’s headquarters in the Osisioma Industrial Layout.

“The four companies will produce the meters in our premises here”, Nnaji told the lawyers led by Aaron Uzodike while making a 3D-model presentation.

Accoring to her, “by assembling in Aba, a lot of jobs will be created for the people, up to 35,000 by the latest estimate. “Together with our partners, we help the country save scarce foreign reserves and help transfer technology to the Nigerian people”.

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.

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: “Our goal is to deliver 20,000 prepaid meters to our customers every month so that every customer will have a smart meter within 12 months”.

There was no clarification if the four meter companies will produce exclusively for Aba Power or also for the entire 11 DisCos in Nigeria.

Aba Power Managing Director, Ugo Opiegbe disclosed that with the ongoing rehabilitation of a number of failed and vandalized facilities in the Aba Ring-fenced Area covering nine of the 17 local government areas in Abia State, the underserved communities for several decades before the company was built in Aba will have a new sigh of life.