Eskom has pre-coded nearly all its prepaid electricity meters.
Eskom’s recent announcement that it pre-coded the vast majority of its prepaid electricity meters could not only help the power utility speedily update many more meters but is also a warning to illegal electricity buyers.
That is due to a timer-linked security mechanism in the 20 digits of electricity tokens that prevents their reuse. For prepaid meters that haven’t received their KRNs, the timer is set to run out of range on 24 November 2024. In a statement on 30 July 2024, Eskom announced it successfully “pre-coded” 6.6 million of its 6.9 million prepaid meters via its central systems.
The only real change that the pre-coding seems to cause is that it makes it impossible for people to load electricity bought from illegal or “ghost” vendors on their meters. Since our last assessment, Eskom’s daily rollover rate has also been slashed by more than half, dropping from 14,670 to 6,496. Eskom will need this to improve to 25,340 meters per day, a substantial increase.
If the number does not pick up, it could suggest that a substantial number of the remaining customers are using illegal electricity tokens or are bypassing their meters illegally.
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