With the continued epileptics status of power supply in Nigeria, more and more estates resident’s association, property owners, and facility managers are relying on Diesel powered Generators to provide alternative energy backup. In some cases, the Grid supply is even less than 6 hours in a day and the Generators serves as the main source of power.
Unfortunately, the property owner and facility managers cannot easily measure the amount electricity consumed from the power generated by the Diesel Generating Sets. They rely on estimated billing to cover for the monthly expenses. The method is prone to fraud and errors and has resulted into untold hardship to both consumers and utility providers. In many cases, the consumers lose confidence in the utility provider or the utility providers shutdown the business.
The present metering convention adopted widely in Nigeria does not support dual energy source as most of the properties have single source/single tariff electricity meters. Furthermore, most of the meter service provides (MSP) and meter access providers (MAP) in Nigeria focus on the single energy source metering because their prime customers are the Distribution companies (Disco) that buy in mass and are not required by law to provide dual metering to their customers. Furthermore, single source meters are easier to installed and require less user education to sell and support.
This vacuum in the Nigeria Electricity Supply Industry (NESI) has opened a relative niche market for dual source meters in the private metering market, because property owners, estates resident’s association excos and facility managers struggle to collect the money spent to power and maintain the diesel generators. Similarly, being a utility provider in their own rights they also need a self-service platform that will enable consumers to pay for power effortless and the money sent to their designated bank account.
In solving problem, Hacom Energy has integrated dual source meters to its vending platform.
It enables facility managers, resident associations and utility providers to set a separate tariff for Generator and Grid and consumers/residents can buy power based on their need. They can also impose a base fee for asides from the rates for each source of power.
For a consumer to enjoy power from both sources, they must buy tokens and load on the meter for each seperate energy source. If tokens are loaded onto the Grid (Disco) wallet on the meter, the consumer not have power when generator is being used and vice-versa.
To help you setup your dual source meters, contact us via:
Email: hello@hacomenery.com
WhatsApp/Call: 07014207004
Website: www.hacomenergy.com