Aba Power, Nigeria’s newest electricity distribution company (DisCo), is taking the lead along with four companies to assemble smart electricity meters in Aba, the Abia State economic nerve 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.

“By assembling them here, a lot of jobs will be created for our 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”.

It is not clear whether the four meter companies will produce exclusively for Aba Power or also for other 11 DisCos in the country, but a source working for one of the firms who asked our correspondent not not to reveal his identity because he is not authorized to speak to the media on the matter, said that “we are likely to start providing only for Aba Power for now and later produce for the other electricity companies in our nation because they all need quality meters.