With 84 days to go before old electricity prepaid meters stop working, the Madibeng Municipality still has to replace 21 000 out of 28 000 meters.
Old prepaid meters will stop working on 24 November if they are not replaced and receive a critical update in time. Hartbeespoort and Brits residents are afraid of being left in the dark should the Madibeng Municipality not succeed in the task.
The municipality is currently busy replacing meters. With 21 000 to go, they will have to replace 250 meters per day to ensure all prepaid users have electricity on 24 November.
Prepaid electricity meters are due to stop accepting new tokens after 24 November 2024, unless they are updated through a process called Token Identifier (TID) rollover. The TID is referenced to a base date of 1993 and will run out of range in 2024, thus causing the prepaid meter to stop accepting tokens.
Madibeng Municipality said last year it had 32 875 registered prepaid consumers and 4 700 meters had already been replaced. “Madibeng is completely replacing old Conlog prepaid and old clock domestic credit meters with new split meters, tackling revenue at the same time,” the municipality said at the time. The estimated completion date was June 2024 but thousands of meters are yet to be replaced.
Once the prepaid meter has been queued for a TID rollover, the user will receive three tokens for the next prepaid electricity purchase.
Tokens 1 and 2 will be your key change tokens, and token 3 will be your normal recharge voucher. Tokens 1 and 2 should be entered in sequence before the recharge voucher.
Once the two tokens have been entered and your meter has been successfully rolled over, you can then load your recharge voucher.
Units on your old meter are supposed to be credited to your account.