PLN to provide two mln LHE connections for free in Sulawesi

Makassar (ANTARA News) - State-owned electricity company PLN will provide two million light & heat energy (LHE) power connections for free for 450 VA household customers in South, West, South East Sulawesi in the near future. 

"We are now waiting for the arrival of the lamps from Jakarta. We hope we will begin distributing them in May," PLN`s Commercial Manager for South Sulawesi, West Sulawesi, SE Sulawesi office, Irwan Nasution said here on Tuesday. 

He said that each of the household customers would get three light & heat energy lamps of 8 watts so that the number of customers that would get the efficient power connection facility would reach 600,000 or about 60 percent of the 900,000 household customers with the wattage limit of 450 VA in these regions. 

Irwan said that the distribution of the LHE was expected to reduce the use of electricity at peak burdens because in these regions about 70 percent of PLN`s 1.3 million customers were households with a wattage of 450 VA. 

Diece Uinana, PLN`s deputy marketing manager, said meanwhile that PLN would install the LHE connections itself in the customers house in order to guarantee that they would really use the facility.