Adopting electricity prepayment billing system to reduce non-technical energy losses in Uganda: Lesson from Rwanda

FM Mwaura - Utilities Policy, 2012 - Elsevier
Uganda is contemplating adopting an electricity prepayment billing system (EPBS) as an
intervention to reduce non-technical energy losses. To provide more insight on EPBS a …

Review of electrical energy losses in Nigeria

OM Komolafe, KM Udofia - Nigerian Journal of Technology, 2020 - ajol.info
The Nigerian electric power sector holds a lot of unfulfilled potentials for the economic
development of Africa's most populous country; the electric energy generated is not up to …

Effect of prepaid meters on the household expenditure on electricity consumption in Ondo state

MM Fasoranti, RS Alimi… - SocioEconomic …, 2022 - armgpublishing.com
Unfair high electricity billing is a challenge to consumers in Nigerian electricity market and it
exerts undue pressure on households who are Charged for electricity service that are not …

Evolution of electricity metering technologies in Nigeria

FM Dahunsi, OR Olakunle, AO Melodi - Nigerian Journal of Technological …, 2021 - ajol.info
Advancement in technology has continuously driven the evolution of metering devices and
infrastructure in the world and has resulted in more accurate and user-friendly devices …

Prepaid electricity plan and electricity consumption behavior

Y Qiu, B Xing, YD Wang - Contemporary Economic Policy, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
By using customer‐level residential billing data from 2008 to 2010 of a major utility company
in Phoenix metropolitan area, this study adopts a matching approach and a difference‐in …

Prepaid meter tariffing for actual power consumption in an average house hold: A case study of Nigeria DISCOs

UC Ogbuefi, PC Ene, PA Okoro - Nigerian journal of technology, 2019 - ajol.info
Prepaid meters have many applications in generation, transmission and distribution of
electric power in Nigeria, this makes their actual power measurement to be an important …

[PDF][PDF] An exploratory study of effects of prepaid metering and energy related behaviour among Ghanaian household

EM Azila-Gbettor, EA Atatsi, F Deynu - International Journal of …, 2015 - academia.edu
The focus of the study is to examine the effect of a new billing and payment system (prepaid
meters) by Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) on the efficiency of revenue mobilization, its …

Prepaid meter in Nigeria: The story so far and the way forward

PE Orukpe, FO Agbontaen - Advanced Materials Research, 2013 - Trans Tech Publ
The prepaid meter was introduced in Nigeria to aid revenue collection and generation by
Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) in 2006 as well as abolished meter reading and …

Payment behaviour of electricity consumers: Evidence from the greater Accra region of Ghana

MA Sualihu, MA Rahman - Global Business Review, 2014 - journals.sagepub.com
Electricity companies are typically businesses with significant credit sales. However, timely
payment of bills on the part of customers, which is supposedly the most reliable source of …

Privatisation, prepaid metering and electricity billing scam of Enugu electricity distribution company (EEDC) in Enugu metropolis of Nigeria

JN Obiorji, VC Iwuoha - Journal of Public Affairs, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
This study underscores the contexts and crisis of privatisation in Nigeria's power sector to
apprehend the level of prepaid meters distribution to consumers, the conflicting billing …