1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This is the Quarterly Progress Report No. 18 and it covers the project activities and progress for the 3rd Quarter 2012 from July 1 to September 30, 2012. Here is a summary of the progress of each subproject at end of 3rd Quarter, 2012: 1.1 Core Subprojects Hospital Feeder Upgrade Stage 1 Contractor was Bluebird Ah LAL JV – Project is complete.  Prepayment Meters (PM) Contractor is A D Riley NZ Ltd – Total number of Prepayment meters installed by ADR up to end of September  2012 is 20,042; 958 left to be completed of Total number of PM in ADR‟s contract. contract is 21,000. Contract includes lowering of meters. Total of 3,988 ADR‟s meters have been lowered to end of September. There are 31,909 active meters at end of September 2012; 23,294 are  Prepayment Meters and 8,615 induction or post paid meters. 73% of total active meters are on Prepayment; this leaves 2% to achieve project  goal of having 75% of total number of active meters on Prepayment Meters. EPC continued to reconcile and clean-up in the Daffron and  customers‟ databases Suprima programs to determine total number of active customers. Post payment customers are still recorded in Daffron, while Suprima program has all prepayment customers. Consultancy Services Implementation Consultant, Egis International, is continuing to complete  Feasibility Studies of 5 hydro schemes and tender documents of 3 of the 5 schemes. EPC hired 3 Individual Consultants (IC) to add to PMU to improve technical  capacity of PMU team. The 3rd IC, which is the Transmission and Distribution engineer is replaced by a locally hired TD Engineer.  PMU submitted to ADB requirements and additional budget for hire of additional consultants needed from time to time on short and long term asssignments. This includes extension of contracts of the 2 IC, shorted term commissioning engineers, Project Manager position, and consultant to conduct Cost of Service and Tariff Study. 1.2 Candidate Subprojects Upolu Generation 1.2.1 Tanugamanono Plant Noise and Emission Controls
1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This is the Quarterly Progress Report No. 18 and it covers the project activities and progress for the 3rd Quarter 2012 from July 1 to September 30, 2012. Here is a summary of the progress of each subproject at end of 3rd Quarter, 2012: 1.1 Core Subprojects Hospital Feeder Upgrade Stage 1 – Contractor was Bluebird Ah LAL JV  Project is complete. Prepayment Meters (PM) – Contractor is A D Riley NZ Ltd  Total number of Prepayment meters installed by ADR up to end of September 2012 is 20,042; 958 left to be completed of ADR‟s contract. Total number of PM in ADR‟s contract is 21,000. Contract includes lowering of meters. Total of 3,988 meters have been lowered to end of September.  There are 31,909 active meters at end of September 2012; 23,294 are Prepayment Meters and 8,615 induction or post paid meters.  73% of total active meters are on Prepayment; this leaves 2% to achieve project goal of having 75% of total number of active meters on Prepayment Meters.  EPC continued to reconcile and clean-up customers‟ databases in the Daffron and Suprima programs to determine total number of active customers. Post payment customers are still recorded in Daffron, while Suprima program has all prepayment customers. Consultancy Services  Implementation Consultant, Egis International, is continuing to complete Feasibility Studies of 5 hydro schemes and tender documents of 3 of the 5 schemes.  EPC hired 3 Individual Consultants (IC) to add to PMU to improve technical capacity of PMU team. The 3rd IC, which is the Transmission and Distribution engineer is replaced by a locally hired TD Engineer.  PMU submitted to ADB requirements and additional budget for hire of additional consultants needed from time to time on short and long term asssignments. This includes extension of contracts of the 2 IC, shorted term commissioning engineers, Project Manager position, and consultant to conduct Cost of Service and Tariff Study. 1.2 Candidate Subprojects Upolu Generation 1.2.1 Tanugamanono Plant Noise and Emission Controls
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