Management of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) has embarked on measures to maximise revenue collection and reduce losses to ensure efficiency in the distribution of electricity to customers.

Among some of the measures are the installment of a net-working system, the automated equipment which enables a staff to stay in the office to monitor meter reading or faults and the prosecution of defaulters.

Reverend William Hutton Mensah, Managing Director of ECG, at a press briefing in Takoradi on Friday, said the automated equipment which was in operation would be extended to cover the whole country.

This would also be installed in areas and places that had high electricity consumption such as hotels and restaurants. Rev. Mensah admonished ECG customers to endeavour to pay their bills promptly to enable the company generate revenue to undertake its numerous projects across the country.

He enumerated ongoing projects in the region as the expansion and rehabilitation of primary sub-stations in parts of the Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolis, notably the Ghacem-Railway area, Anaji, Apowa, Bogoso, Enchi, Sefwi Juaboso, Asankragua, Esiama, Agona Nkwanta and Shama.

He said a modern complex was to be constructed in the region where materials would be kept in order to stop travelling to the Head Office for supplies. Rev. Mensah said the Public Utility Regulatory Commission had charged the ECG to achieve a bench mark reduction of 21 per cent, therefore, there was the need to work hard to achieve that.

He appealed to the public to expose people who indulged in illegal connection of electricity for them to face the law, saying the identity of informants would be protected and rewarded.

Mr William Boateng, Head of Public Relations, ECG, said the recent load shedding exercise was not intentional as the system demanded it and that the ECG acted on instruction by the power suppliers.