GEORGE NEWS - George Municipality has been announced as the top performing category B municipality by the Association of Municipal Electricity Utilities (AMEU).
The award celebrates top performance within a category B municipality, with a focus on revenue management, repairs and maintenance, power purchase, BBBEE procurement spend, training and development, infrastructure, capital expenditure and electrification.
The 68th AMEU Convention hosted in the first week of October ended with a gala dinner on 4 October and the award was presented to Electrotechnical Services Director Bongani Mandla as part of the AMEU President's Legacy Awards Programme.
The participating municipalities were compared on a number of aspects where performance had to be indicated.
Other aspects reviewed were revenue collection, electrification of formal houses as well as unproclaimed areas, indigent customers with access to free basic electricity, unplanned outages that are restored to supply within industry standard time frames and capital expenditure.
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