The Jamaica Public Service Company, the country’s sole electricity distributor, is projecting that a new pre-paid billing system will be available island-wide by year end. The system allows customers to pay a set price for a fixed period of service.
The programme has started, on a pilot basis, in Portmore, a large urban community just outside the capital city, Kingston.
Kelly Tomblin, CEO of JPS, explained on RJR’s “Beyond the Headlines” on Tuesday that the company will use information from the pilot project to prepare for the island-wide expansion.
“We wanted to get in and piloted before our Customer Information System upgrade,” she explained.
Expressing excitement about the initiative, Tomblin said, with the customer being in charge of how much electricity to use on a pre-paid basis, it would put customers “in charge” and no longer at risk of being disconnected by the JPS for failure to pay their bills.
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Jamaican electricity customers to get islandwide pre-paid system by year-end
