No pay, no service: City Power will no longer restore power to Johannesburg residents who don't pay for electricity. 💡CityPower TheCitizenNews
Mangena explained that, according to the Local Government: Municipal Systems Management Act, City Power is within its right to ensure it installs the prepaid meters for the purposes of revenue collection on behalf of the City.
City Power is working towards “normalising” electricity Token Identifier meters in Johannesburg and cleaning up its data to ensure unmetered customers, “especially in non-affluent areas, have smart meters that will enable them to not only buy electricity, but also to assist City Power to remotely monitor and control the load as we battle with load shedding”.
Mangena appealed to the city’s residents for their cooperation in allowing officials to gain access to their properties to audit and normalise meters. “These audits will be vital in preparation for the TID rollover as some of the meters cannot be reprogrammed. “The TID resetting entails that every non-smart meter should be replaced with the new technology meters. These old technology meters will stop accepting the credit tokens by November 2024 as the credit token will run out of available numbers.
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