City Power will be increasing its efforts to collect outstanding debt from customers across the City of Johannesburg.
According to City Power, they are owed around R4.9 billion by customers who use electricity without paying for it, which includes corporates, government departments, and ordinary citizens.
The campaign, revenue collection is aimed at assisting City Power customers who owe or use illegal electricity to pay up.
CEO of City Power Lerato Setshedi said in a statement, “Revenue collection impacts heavily on the sustainability of our business and is a key focus area – every cent counts. Without this revenue, we cannot invest in the necessary infrastructure to ensure uninterrupted power supply.”
Setshedi also said that illegal electricity connection has immensely contributed to revenue losses.
City Power is embarking on an aggressive drive to collect outstanding debt from its customers across the City of Johannesburg. #RevenueCollection
— @CityPowerJhb (@CityPowerJhb) March 4, 2020
Setshedi added, “Over 37 000 accounts are in default, among them are 480 large power users such as manufacturing and mines, over 10 400 businesses and 104 government departments, including schools, hospitals, and department offices and more than 26 600 outstanding residential accounts.”
Customers have been urged to come forward voluntarily and settle their debts or make arrangements to do so. “We will be reaching out, engaging citizens, business forums and councillors about this campaign so they understand the link between our revenue collection and normalisation of services.”
For more information, visit the City of Joburg website
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