‘Every cent counts’ as City Power targets nonpaying customers

The entity, which relies on Eskom for 90% of its power supply and on the Kelvin Power Station for the remaining 10%, said that “revenue collection impacts heavily on the sustainability of the business”.

“With this campaign, we want to change attitudes towards nonpayment. If customers don’t pay, we might have to close shop because we will not be able to embark on capital projects to ensure that we sustain power supply. We are also not able to fix outages when they happen.”Mangena added that the drive would include house-to-house visits to customers, as well as the installation of smart meters. These meters would help City Power identify those who consume abnormally high amounts of power.

So I guess Kelvin won't be used to offset load shedding than... How about cutting the non payers and also making it easier for people to switch prepaid meters, not all having to into Booysens

More than 37 000 accounts in default with City Power. Among them are 480 large power users, such as manufacturing ; mines, more than 10 400 businesses, 104 govt dept's, more than 26 600 are outstanding residential accounts. Govt should lead by example, don't fall into arrears.

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