{"id":194266,"date":"2025-03-22T19:06:53","date_gmt":"2025-03-22T17:06:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-ech-pilots-200-new-smart-meters-at-suame\/"},"modified":"2025-03-22T19:06:53","modified_gmt":"2025-03-22T17:06:53","slug":"ghana-ech-pilots-200-new-smart-meters-at-suame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-ech-pilots-200-new-smart-meters-at-suame\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: ECH Pilots 200 New Smart Meters At Suame"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">The Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) has launched a pilot project in the Ashanti West Region, installing 200 new smart prepaid meters in the Suame District.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">This initiative is part of the company&#8217;s Loss Reduction Project (LRP) and aims to improve the efficiency of electricity distribution in the region.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">With the New Smart Prepaid meters, customers can recharge their meters anytime and anywhere using the ECG PowerApp or shortcode *226#, and allows customers to access real-time data on energy&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202503200415.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ghana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ghana\/\">Ghana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) has launched a pilot project in the Ashanti West Region, installing 200 new smart prepaid meters in the Suame District. This initiative is part of the company&#8217;s Loss Reduction Project (LRP) and aims to improve the efficiency of electricity distribution in the region. With the New Smart Prepaid meters, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":194267,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[258,256,50931,4508,4509,8031,257,14223,9353,254,43706],"class_list":["post-194266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-ech","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-meters","tag-news","tag-pilots","tag-smart","tag-south-africa-today","tag-suame"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194266\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}