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South Africa’s TID Rollover Progress – We Are in a Race

SALGA Dashboard reports NO progress from Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality 86% of Municipal prepaid meters have been upgraded Eskom still has to issue 2.9 Million Key Change Tokens 92 941 meters need to be updated per day to reach 24 November 2024 deadline SALGA has established a dashboard where the status of TID rollover meter …

  • SALGA Dashboard reports NO progress from Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality
  • 86% of Municipal prepaid meters have been upgraded
  • Eskom still has to issue 2.9 Million Key Change Tokens
  • 92 941 meters need to be updated per day to reach 24 November 2024 deadline

SALGA has established a dashboard where the status of TID rollover meter reset is displayed. The dashboard consists of various parameters on the TID rollover data, such as total number of prepayment meters to be reset, number of prepayment meters that have been reset per municipality, outstanding number of prepayment meters. It is from this background that SALGA will collect data from municipalities on a quarterly basis by means of an online questionnaire.

Want to know how your municipality is performing?

  1. Select the drop down for your province
  2. Tick the box for your municipality
  3. Read the results

SALGA’s main dashboard reports that 3 615 285 (86%) or prepaid meters have been reset with 599 030 (14%) meters outstanding.

The above numbers do NOT include Eskom’s direct clients using prepaid electricity meters – those numbers are worse: Eskom’s KRN rollover started in August 2023, but in the 14 months since, it has updated less than 60% of the 6.9 million prepaid meters on its database.

That would make around 10.5 Million municipal or Eskom direct prepaid electricity meters installed in South Africa.

The above numbers DO NOT include the massive prepaid meter numbers installed by companies like Straton Prepaid, though. That market is serviced by around 512 Payment Processing companies and the number of units installed is a moving target hard to pinpoint.

Eskom’s Key Revision Number Dashboard:

Eskom Dashboard.

Key change tokens are issued as clients purchase electricity – the process is two fold:

Eskom will decide which area will become ‘live’
When clients purchase electricity they will receive two key change tokens from the local or online vendor that they need to key into the keypad.

Meters that have not been upgraded will stop working after 24 November 2024.

Click here: https://straton.co.za/pre-paid/need-to-confirm-that-your-prepaid-meter-has-been-upgraded/ to check if your meter HAS been upgraded.

We THINK that we may have spotted a concern with the dashboard, though:

We selected the Eastern Cape and then Nelson Mandela Bay and the numbers reported showed that of the 145 576 prepaid meters to be reset NONE had been done so.

Local residents are well aware of this reset as they receive notifications on their purchase slips and via adverts on local radio stations.

Let us assume the best case scenario that the numbers of prepaid meters reset have just not been reported to SALGA by the Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality to update the dashboard!

UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES – This reset exercise will reveal the meter numbers that may:

  1. Not be working
  2. Be bypassed
  3. Topped up via nefarious means

And this represents a potential recovered revenue stream for municipalities and Eskom alike – we will wait and see if these income streams will have a downward pressure on future increases!

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