Havana, August 14 (acn) Brigades
of the Cuban Electric Union (UNE) are installing modern electricity
meters are being installed in Cuban houses and businesses whose
consumption does not exceed 50 kwh. With 3.5 million clients, UNE will
guarantee the instalment, free of charge, of 1.5 million electric
meters before 2008. More complex equipment are being supplied to
industries, hotels, and other facilities whose consumption exceeds 50
Kwh.
In statements to ACN, UNE commercial manager Ramon Lopez Ramos said
this 6.5-million dollar investment is part of a program to improve the
measurement of electrical energy supplied to the residential sector and
business, as part of the Energy Revolution under way in Cuba.
The China-made devices have a high quality and are very reliable, with
no mechanical parts.