[NYTr] Cubans Get Modern Electric Meters in Continuing Effort to Save Energy

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Cubans Get Modern Electric Meters in Continuing Effort to Save Energy

Havana, August 14 (acn) Brigades of the Cuban Electric Union (UNE) are 
installing modern electricity meters are being installed in Cuban 
houses and businesses whose consumption does not exceed 50 kwh. With 
3.5 million clients, UNE will guarantee the installment, free of 
charge, of 1.5 million electric meters before 2008. More complex 
equipment are being supplied to industries, hotels, and other 
facilities whose consumption exceeds 50 Kwh.

In statements to ACN, UNE commercial manager Ramon Lopez Ramos said 
this 6.5-million dollar investment is part of a program to improve the 
measurement of electrical energy supplied to the residential sector and 
business, as part of the Energy Revolution underway in Cuba.

The China-made devices have a high quality and are very reliable, with 
no mechanical parts.