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Prepaid electricity crisis: 70 million meters may stop working next year | Business

Time is running out to update ten million prepaid electricity meters in South Africa. 

In less than two years, a software limitation in the programming of prepaid electricity meters could reduce the revenue that authorities receive from the sale of electricity to zero, unless they step in to do something about it. Miniature Circuit Breaker

Prepaid electricity crisis: 70 million meters may stop working next year | Business

Vendors, including Eskom and municipalities in South Africa, must execute a relatively simple project to avoid the issue, but the only problem is this project will take some time, and many have hardly started.

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Prepaid electricity crisis: 70 million meters may stop working next year | Business

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