The Commonwealth Utilities Corp. is targeting December for their \u201csmart\u201d prepaid meters to begin operating on Rota.<\/p>\n
According to chief financial officer Matthew Yaquinto, they are looking at Dec. 1, 2015, for the meters to go online.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe wanted to go online on Dec. 1, so we gave PayGo until [Nov.] 16th to get everything set up so we can upload it in the system and we\u2019ll have two weeks to test the meters that are out there,\u201d Yaquinto said in Thursday\u2019s board meeting.<\/p>\n
PayGo is the service that will monitor the usage and consumption of CUC\u2019s customers.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe need that to interface with the meters and interface with our system,\u201d Yaquinto said.<\/p>\n
He said the system will be easier for the customers than to \u201cbuy the tokens with the little numbers on them.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt allows us to monitor the system remotely and allows the customer to do more things. From their standpoint, they\u2019ll know how much they have in the meter, how much they\u2019ve consumed during the night,\u201d Yaquinto said.<\/p>\n
The smart meters are easy to install and the customers don\u2019t have to pay for it. Yaquinto said CUC has about a thousand of the meters but is not sure how many are on service.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re going to order more. We have 12,000 customers, so I\u2019d like to get almost as many people on [the meters] as possible,\u201d<\/p>\n
Last September, 300 meters were sent to Rota and another 300 to Tinian. For Saipan, Yaquinto said there are prepaid meters but not smart meters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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