Joburg residents must update prepaid meters themselves as City Power bungles project
City Power has been far behind the pace it needed to be at to avoid a prepaid electricity meter disaster next year.
There are roughly 11.5 million of these meters in South Africa and over 70 million in the world, spread out over 100 countries. All of these will stop working beyond the rollover date unless the meters are updated. The issue is called the token identifier rollover. Some authorities have sent designated task teams to every house in a supply area to generate and enter the numbers on behalf of users.
A back-of-the-napkin calculation shows that an average of 160 meters were rolled over per day by City Power for the last eight months. City Power spokesperson Isaac Mangena told News24 that nothing went wrong with the in-person method, but progress had been slower than in other municipalities.
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