Mohamed Shaker, the Minister of Electricity and Renewable Energy, met with smart meters’ manufacturers to discuss the transformation of around 27 million electricity meters into prepaid ones, Amwal Al Ghad reported.

Shaker handed the massive operation to the Arab Organization for Industrialization (AOI), El Sewedy Electric, Iskraemeco, Electro Meter Corporation (EMC), El Maasara Company and Global Company, stressing that cooperation between all manufacturers is needed as the workload would large to be carried out by one company

The minister emphasized the importance of cooperation between the manufacturing companies, in addition to applying new modern technology in the manufacturing process according to international standards.