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BY GLENDA SOLOGASTOA
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Sunday, March 12, 2017
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ILOILO City – Councilor Joshua Alim proposed an ordinance requiring the city’s sole power distributor, Panay Electric Company (PECO), to establish a “meter reading card system.”
This will avoid confusion and complaints over the power consumption of consumers, he said.
“In this meter reading card system, PECO will post a card to each consumer’s house. The card should reflect or record the monthly consumption,” said Alim.
Through this, the consumer is appraised of his monthly consumption, make a comparison, and even file the necessary complaint if there are discrepancies before the issuance of a billing receipt, he added.
The proposed ordinance hurdled first reading then referred to the city council’s committee on public utilities chaired by Councilor R Leonie Gerochi.
Just recently, PECO announced it will be improving its metering system using the modern Automated Metering Infrastructure (AMI).
The installation of these “smart meters” is seen as a new era for PECO as these provide many benefits, the most crucial of which is accuracy in meter reading since no manpower will be needed to read the meters.
PECO sees smart meters as a “permanent solution” for billing issues of its customers.
“All readings are programmed to go directly to the computers of PECO without any actual meter readers needed on the field. This eliminates the human factor in meter reading and customers can fully rely on the accuracy of the billing,” said Mikel C. Afzelius, PECO’s corporate communications officer.
The first 1,000 “smart meters” will be installed this April 2017.
Another advantage of the smart meter is being tamper proof.
“These new meters have sensors inside it that if anyone will try to tamper them they will automatically shut down and be reported in PECO’s system,” said Afzelius./PN
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