The Ministry of Electricity and Renewable Energy has started its first actual steps towards digital transformation in the field of collecting monthly consumption bills, by starting the experience of mechanized collection at the South Cairo Electricity Distribution Company and stopping the printing of bills in the 6th of October City, as part of the ministry’s plan to stop printing bills and provide the huge amounts of money that it bears. Electricity distribution companies in print.
And Dr. Ayman Hamza, spokesman for the Ministry of Electricity and Renewable Energy, revealed that all electricity distribution companies have printing presses to print monthly electricity consumption bills inside the companies’ headquarters, except for Alexandria and Upper Egypt Electricity Distribution Company.
Hamza added, in exclusive statements to “The Seventh Day”, that the ministry, represented by the Egyptian Electricity Holding Company, is in the process of generalizing the experience of the South Cairo Electricity Distribution Company in mechanized collection and stopping the process of printing bills permanently, especially in light of the ministry’s plan for digital transformation and the completion of a plan to transfer enough traditional meters. For prepaid ones that depend on shipping cards instead of the monthly invoice issued by the distribution companies, within 10 years with the expiry of the plan.
Hamza indicated that after confirming the success of the automated collection experience in some departments of the South Cairo Company, it will be gradually generalized to all distribution companies, noting that these machines provide the subscriber with several choices of payment methods, whether cash or credit card..
For his part, Dr. Ahmed Abdel-Dayem, the General Administration of Issuance Services and Smart and Prepaid Meters at the South Cairo Electricity Distribution Company, confirmed that the experience of mechanized collection and stopping printing invoices aims to govern the collection system, whether financial or administrative, and follow up the performance of the collector while he is on the street, moment by moment..
And Abdel-Dayem added, in exclusive statements to “The Seventh Day”, that the governance of the collection system also aims to follow up on the company’s accounts first-hand and to enter its financial dues into its account as soon as it is collected from the customer and not to wait for the collector to supply these financial amounts, pointing out that the next month will be Dissemination of the experience in one of the other departments of the company in preparation for full circulation within a short period.