Following the issuance of Public Notice by the Energy Commission appointing Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) to be in charge of the management and operations of electricity sales and the retention of Power Distribution Services Ghana Ltd of the Electricity Distribution License in the Southern Electricity Zone of Ghana, ECG and PDS have agreed on interim operational modalities.
This is to ensure that there are no distribution of power supply and service delivery challenges to customers.
A statement by the two bodies says as an interim measure, PDS will provide services on behalf of ECG. These includes, Metre reading, Billing, Distribution of bills, Bill reconciliation and Revenue collection.
It says in this light, all payments and other related activities shall continue to take place at PDS Regional and District Offices, PDS existing Customer Service Centres, PDS licensed vending stations and PDS operated Cash Points.
All cheques shall be issued in the name of Power Distribution Services Ghana Limited.
This interim arrangement shall be in force from 8th of August until its reversal or otherwise by the Energy Commission.
ECG and PDS assure the public that they will continue to provide quality electricity services to customers.