Rwanda: Power Utility Embraces Technology to Enhance Efficiency, Reduce Losses

10 November 2016

The Energy Utility Corporation Limited (EUCL), a subsidiary company of the Rwanda Energy Group (REG), has turned to new technologies as it steps up efforts to enhance efficiency and transparency.

The Integrated and business management system (IBM), according to Jean Bosco Mugiraneza, the REG chief executive officer, is part of the reforms being undertaken by the group to "boost efficiency and help minimise losses to spur revenue collection, as well as fix managerial gaps". The REG chief said the solution, by South African-based enterprise software developer, IFS, will help the utility reduce commercial losses from current 3 per cent to less than one per cent.

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