Grant Smith

Content by Grant Smith

• Data Item

  Data: Prepaid electricity metering: Costs, benefits and potential for scale-up

  The standard approach to recovering the cost of electricity provision is to bill customers monthly for past consumption. If unable to pay, customers face disconnection, the utility loses revenue, and the service provision model is undermined. A possible solution to this problem is prepaid metering, in which customers buy electricity upfront and use it until the prepaid...

  27 Feb 2019

• Publication - Working Paper

  Charging ahead: Prepaid electricity metering in South Africa

  28 Jul 2017 | Kelsey Jack, Grant Smith

  
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• Project

  Prepaid electricity: Better service delivery for the poor?

  Study examined the effects of a policy change in 2014 that switched 4,000 households on the grid in Cape Town, South Africa, to prepaid metering. Introducing prepaid meters led to a 13% drop in electricity usage – and the effect persisted throughout the two-year study, suggesting the meters helped customers better understand and take control of their energy...

  19 Mar 2015 | Kelsey Jack, Grant Smith

• Publication - Working Paper

  Pay as you go: Pre-paid metering and electricity expenditures in South Africa

  1 Jan 2015 | Kelsey Jack, Grant Smith

  
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