Prepayment grows in Dominican Republic – 17,000 prepay meters by year-end

 

Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic — August 19, 2013 

 

The prepay meter deployment began last year in El Manguito in the National District in EdeSur’s concession area, before being extended to Sagrario Díaz, 

Esther Rosario and La Yuca. EdeEste has deployments in Villa Juana and Villas Agrícolas, and EdeNorte in the Pontezuela community.

Along with the prepay deployment the companies are also doing rehabilitation of the networks, including installation of new poles and transformers.

In the next stage EdeEste will instal approximately 1,900 prepay meters in the Borojol sector of the National District, and EdeSur will instal over 11,000 prepay meters in the South region. This region includes the community of Juancho, where some prepay meters are already in use and which had recorded losses of 90 percent, and the towns of Pedernales and Oviedo, which have losses varying between 40 percent and 70 percent.

 

Source: metering.com