Kumasi (Ashanti Region) -- The Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) Ashanti has taken delivery of a total of 7,000 meters for its metering programme in the region.

The first of the project, which cost ?2.5 billion, took off on November 20, this year002.

The programme is expected to inject a level of efficiency into the company as well as help reduce commercial losses and waste.

The Regional Director, Mr. William Hutton-Mensah, explained that the exercise will be at no cost to customers.

"Providing customers with meters free of charge is customer satisfaction - a priority of ECG," he said.

Hutton-Mensah said ECG has 13,890 customers to consider under the metering programme.

While 6,631 new meters will go to customers on flat rate 6,114 will be used to replace faulty ones and yet 1,145 will be provided for the Self Help Electrification Programme (SHEP) premises without meters.

According to the director, it expected that installation of new credit meters in all customer premises on flat rate (premises without meters) would have been completed by February, next year.

Meanwhile, from less than 3,000 at the beginning of the year almost 9,000 customers are currently sampling the prepayment metering system.