Sudanese Electricity Distribution Company
The Sudanese Electricity Distribution Company Ltd is the company responsible for distributing electricity and selling it to consumers in Sudan, and it is the final link in the electricity supply chain that reaches the consumer in his home, factory and farm. The company was established on 28 June 2010 pursuant to Cabinet Decision No. 169 of 2010, which abolished the order establishing the National Electricity Corporation, and under which the Corporation's properties, movables, rights and obligations passed to the companies established in the field of electricity, so the tasks of generation, transmission and distribution were separated into specialised companies, after the National Corporation had, since the separation of electricity services from water in 1982, supervised generation, transmission, distribution and sale operations on the national grid. The company's core purposes are to distribute electricity, sell it and market it to consumers, invest in the industry of equipment and devices used in electricity distribution and trade in them, localise modern technology, upgrade performance, build technical capacities and human skills, and contribute to increasing gross domestic product through increased production and improved productivity. The company provides its services to residential, commercial, industrial and government sectors, and its services include new connection requests, prepaid subscribers' bills, purchasing electricity with recharge cards, reprinting purchase receipts, statements of account for major customers, and calculation of consumed energy, in addition to electronic services. Its structure consists of a Director General and departments for legal affairs, internal audit, information technology, technical services and automatic control, and general departments for commercial affairs, planning and projects, Khartoum State electricity distribution, states electricity distribution, human and administrative resources, finance and supplies. The company has also established projects to raise service quality, including the Customer Services Centre, geographic information systems, and solar energy projects through the Rural Electricity Administration and agricultural projects electricity.
(Sources: Official website of the Sudanese Electricity Distribution Company Ltd, Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, and Sudan University of Science and Technology research repository)
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