Cabinet Notes: The Cabinet held an intense discussion on NET METERING and NET BILLING.
These systems refer to APUA’s provision of electricity to customers who choose to place alternative energy systems on their properties.
Those customers who add their extra power back on to the APUA grid and value that measured power at retail cost, would receive credits to reduce their APUA bill by that value, and are said to engage in net metering.
Those who sell their power to the APUA at wholesale cost are engaged in net billing, The APUA is considering requests from new building owners.
Educational institutions, Churches, and medical facilities enjoy low rates.
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Will APUA be consistent on the billing process if this goes into effect. APUA is known for not billing people correctly. I have been billed constantly for water and my service have been cut since March 2023 and still to this day APUA ah bill me feh water.
As well why don’t APUA implement a top up system for people who rent homes and AIRBNB’s. In Kenya you they have a system where there is a box utilized for renters to pay as they go and if the credit run out they have to top up to receive more service. This could work for renters and also customers of low income status, who may not be able to afford a regular electric bill. Your electric consumption is based on the credit you have on your box.
If Apua does a top up system for electricity it will bankrupt them, the ability they have now for estimation of bills to make up for salaries and loan expenditures will be taken away, logically when APUA suppress the power around the island daily, the meters come to a stand still, if you calculate the amount of kilowatts hours lost by the duration of power outage it is millions of dollars. If APUA makes 1 billion dollars a year it loses half a billion in power outages, so apart from the Meter reader data that is submitted monthly a financial technician has to use historical billings of each customer to offset the APUA deficits, or else APUA will cease to exist, APUA is lazy and lives on the laurels of it’s monopoly, and don’t act as though it should be competitive as the private sector, APUA should have it’s worker out there with binoculars spying on any infrastructure that needs power to supply by installing free infrastructure to bring in income, all vendors on the street should be approach by Apua for temporary power kiosk, so revenue could generated in all areas, along with the networking ability to have your bills payed at any supermarkets or businesses just as a top up, but concerning infrastructure projection, that task is for the DCA who should have rightfully be the electrical inspectors of properties, it’s an anomaly for Apua to be the power provider and the inspector and the arbitrator when there is electrical damages to people appliances, because they are the one who certified your wiring installation to come back and arbitrate your wiring inadequate to get away from paying out to customers. Just as all politics between the two parties, the APUA was a PLM project, so when ALP won back power in 1976 they stop throwing chains across the high tension lines to black out the country and leave APUA in oblivion without the finish works that PLM was to continue after separating APUA from public works like pensions for workers and LIAT comes to mind that was done under PLM, no pension also , but they are both used as a cash cow, there was an engineer name George Piggott who wanted to pull that place together as a private concern, but the political interference ran him, and him been a professional that’s a no no, I have to write as I see it, if any APUA officials is offended tell them wait until they are retired and sitting out here to endure the APUA billing horrors only then they will cry murder.