The community of Majesty Gardens in St. Andrew is being celebrated as a success story for the implementation of a device which has slashed illegal electricity connections in the area.
The device, known as the Ready Board, has resulted in the number of legal JPS customers in Majesty Gardens growing from three in February 2013 to 466 as at this month.
The Ready Board is a panel which accommodates sockets and bulbs, and allows for the safe use of electricity in homes which cannot facilitate traditional house wiring.
It is the result of a JPS partnership with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), which provided US$100,000 for the material and JPS investing J$54.8 million for pole line infrastructure.
The University of Technology provided engineering students who manufactured the ready boards on their Papine campus.
The JPS anticipates that by the end of the year, roughly 600 of the 800 households in Majesty Gardens will be benefiting from legal electricity supply.
The effort has resulted in 207 households now enjoying legal electricity because of the ready board installation in their homes.
The JPS estimates that there are 200,000 non-paying consumers across the island, and is hoping that the ready board will help to bring that number down significantly.
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