Prepaid
Electricity is finally going islandwide.
On
Sunday September 11th 2016, JPS Co (Jamaica Service Public Company)
is rolling out their Pay As You
Go Prepaid Electricity product as reported in the article “JPS
Launches Prepaid Electricity Service Islandwide”, Published Sunday
September 11, 2016, The Jamaica Gleaner.
The
Pay As You Go Prepaid
Electricity had been launched in May 2015 with some 800 customer eventually
signing on as detailed in my blog article
entitled “800
for JPS Co's Prepaid Power in 2 Months - How @myJPSonline PAYG spreading like
Wild Fire among 2000 Guinea Pigs in the Summer of 2015”.
You
can sign up for the Pay As You
Go Prepaid Electricity at this website: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/jpspayg
The benefits are quite obvious and compelling for switching from Postpaid to Prepaid Electricity:
1.
35% to 50% saving on their electricity
bill
2.
Ability to manage their electricity
costs
3.
Ability to keep track of their energy
use
PAYG,
which has a convenient online signup form, involves the installation of a
smartmeter at your home to replaces the analog meter and has been available in
other countries, namely:
1.
United States
2.
South Africa
3.
Argentina
4.
United Kingdom
Prepaid
Electricity twinned with Digital smartmeters results in more accurate tracking
of your electricity usage. This simply means you can't leave appliances plugged
in, as they draw electricity, a phenomenon known as vampire power.
JPS Co Prepaid goes
islandwide – CONEC Mobile Wallet and Charging Stations Coming
However,
PAYG allows for the
convenience of being able to check your electricity balance in much the same
way like phone credit using their PAYG App or going to the MyJPSCo Website.
You can then choose to buy blocks of PAYG Credit to pay for your electricity using CONEC Mobile Wallet as pointed out in my blog article entitled “Why CONEC Mobile Money to pay JPS Co EBILL before Digicel Paymaster Mobile Money”.
The
PAYG System also alerts customers when their balance is low to avoid them going
home in the dark. Interestingly the PAYG System allows emergency top-up by
calling the JPS Customer Care Centre, very similar to FLOW Lend as described in
my Geezam blog article entitled “FLOW Jamaica launches FLOW Lend to allow
subscriber to borrow Voucher Credit”.
More
interestingly, Prepaid Power sets up the possibility for All-Electric Vehicles
coming to Jamaica by JPS Co having Charging stations which you pay for using
your PAYG smartphone App as described in my blog article
entitled “How
US$5 million JPSCo smart meter rollout means CONEC Mobile Money for Tesla
Motors Charging Stations”.
Interesting
times ahead for Jamaica as it relates to Mobile Money and All-Electric
Vehicles, as this is the perfect storm to jumpstart theses advanced services.
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