Roxas City electric meter readers go hi-tech
Roxas City -- The electric meter readers of the Capiz Electric Cooperative (CAPELCO) at the Roxas City Area Office are now using the P-SION gadget to enhance their daily operation in the field of kilowatt hour (kWh) meter reading.
"P-SION is a mobile computing device which can read and bill while meter readers do their daily routine in their respective routes," said CAPELCO Public Information Officer Kenneth Emmanuel Tipon.
The cooperative has invested on the gadgets to improve the accuracy in reading electric meters of more than 90,000 member-consumers, Tipon added.
For his part, CAPELCO General Manager Edgar Diaz said the added features of the gadget will soon be used and explored to help meter readers speed up accomplishment of their tasks.
Recently, the Department of Energy (DOE) has allotted a P200-million electrification budget while the National Electrification Administration (NEA) has allocated P300-million to fully energize the remaining 5 percent of the country's un-energized barangays by 2008.
NEA records show that only 770 from a total of 41,945 barangays remain un-energized.
President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo started in Bohol the government's countdown to conquer the darkness in 2008 in a symbolic flipping of the switch to dramatize the administration's intent to make power available to all the country's barangays before her term ends.
"In 2009, government will finally conquer darkness with the attainment of a 100 percent barangay electrification rate," the President said.
(PIA/A.Lumaque)