By Jude Michael
The Enugu Electricity Distribution Company (EEDC), on Sunday, urged South-East residents to upgrade their pre-paid meters before November 24.
The EEDC Head of Corporate Communications, Mr Emeka Ezeh, disclosed this to newsmen in Enugu.
‘This is due to the Token Identifier (TID) rollover, an exercise that affects all Standard Transfer Specification (STS) compliant prepaid meters across the globe,’ Eze said.
It will be recalled that EEDC had in its various engagements and enlightenment programmes, notified South-East residents that all STS prepaid meters would cease to accept credit tokens by November 24 unless they were upgraded.
Ezeh said that the EEDC successfully cut over to its newly acquired vending system, “SuperEdge”, as part of its preparation for a smooth upgrade.
According to him, prepaid meters not upgraded would no longer accept new tokens, though they would still be functional till the energy credits already loaded in them were used up.
‘Consequently, customers who have not recharged their prepaid meters since February 2024 will have their very first recharge come with the Key Change Tokens (KCTs).
‘These are three sets of 20-digit tokens needed for the upgrade which customers are expected to punch into their prepaid meters.
‘The first 20 digits will be punched into the meter, after which the customer should press the “enter” button; the same should be done for the second 20 digits and the third 20 digits, to have the meter upgraded,’ he said, noting that the exercise was free and at no cost to customers.
The EEDC spokesman urged customers who still had tokens earlier purchased but yet to be loaded onto their meters, to load them before administering the three sets of 20 digits tokens.
