UNB, Dhaka :
The Dhaka Electric Supply Company Ltd (DESCO) will provide smart pre-payment meters to all its customers by 2023.
Kausar Ameer Ali, managing director of DESCO, said this while speaking at a webinar on “Challenges After Achieving 100% Eectricity Coverage” on Sunday evening.
The virtual seminar was also addressed by Bikash Dewan, managing director of Dhaka Power Distribution Company Ltd, (DPDC), Helal Uddin, Vice President of Bangladesh Shop Owners Association, Shahedul Islam Helal, former president of Bangladesh Chamber of Industries (BCI) and Ariful Haque Suhan, vice chairman of Reverie Power & Automation Engioneering.
Energy & Power editor Mollah Amzad Hossain Conducted the seminar.
Desco is responsible for electricity distribution in the
city’s west and north-eastern areas of 225 sq km including Mirpur, Pallabi, Kafrul, Kalyanpur, Cantonment, Gulshan, Banani, Baridhara, Mohakhali, Uttara, Uttarkhan, Dakkhinkhan, Badda and Purbachal.
It has about 1 million consumers some of which were provided pre-payment meters for billing purpose are living mainly in Mirpur and Uttara.
To get electricity supply continued, the consumers of these areas have to re-charge their pre-payment card cards from the vending stations.
The Dhaka Electric Supply Company Ltd (DESCO) will provide smart pre-payment meters to all its customers by 2023.
Kausar Ameer Ali, managing director of DESCO, said this while speaking at a webinar on “Challenges After Achieving 100% Eectricity Coverage” on Sunday evening.
The virtual seminar was also addressed by Bikash Dewan, managing director of Dhaka Power Distribution Company Ltd, (DPDC), Helal Uddin, Vice President of Bangladesh Shop Owners Association, Shahedul Islam Helal, former president of Bangladesh Chamber of Industries (BCI) and Ariful Haque Suhan, vice chairman of Reverie Power & Automation Engioneering.
Energy & Power editor Mollah Amzad Hossain Conducted the seminar.
Desco is responsible for electricity distribution in the
city’s west and north-eastern areas of 225 sq km including Mirpur, Pallabi, Kafrul, Kalyanpur, Cantonment, Gulshan, Banani, Baridhara, Mohakhali, Uttara, Uttarkhan, Dakkhinkhan, Badda and Purbachal.
It has about 1 million consumers some of which were provided pre-payment meters for billing purpose are living mainly in Mirpur and Uttara.
To get electricity supply continued, the consumers of these areas have to re-charge their pre-payment card cards from the vending stations.
