Online electricity payments in Havana: more municipalities join

At least three municipalities in Havana have joined forces to pay the electricity bill online in the capital, as part of a “pilot test”, to make this new service popular, and to stop waiting for the “paper electricity bill” to be paid. Present. According to the official authorities, the new territories are Cerro, Cotoro and Arroyo Naranjo.

From this week, residents of those municipalities do not have to go to the commercial offices there to pay for electricity at collection windows, but can do so from the convenience of their mobile phones. In this they also contribute, according to officialWith less use of cash for these actions.

In these aforementioned municipalities, and in Plaza and Playa, the electric service will not be collected by cash in commercial offices, but by alternative means such as payment by “Transfermóvil, Enzona, post office, ATMs, banks and telephone banking”. Electricity company collectors will also not come to homes to collect the bill.

In case of late payment, the customer will be warned, and if the “due” is not paid, the electrical service will be removed by the debtor, and a warning from the electricity company.

Electronic payment for electricity in Havana, Cuba

According to this report, in Havana, since August this year, a “pilot test” of electronic stream payment has already been carried out, initially from the municipalities of Plaza and Playa. There, more than 27,000 customers paid their electricity bill online for the first time.

They confirm from the official authorities that the Havana Electricity Company “adopts measures” for those who do not have electronic means, such as mobile phones or the Internet, that they are not left “without protection” and can pay for their service and are not left without electricity . But they did not specify what “those measures” were.