Traditional post-pay metering infrastructure doesn’t offer real-time grid analytics – how much energy is being consumed and what payment is owed – concealing valuable data from operators, while a cash-based system leaves utilities susceptible to payment default, billing errors, and outright fraud. <br> <br> <br>
Conventional infrastructure systems are susceptible to energy theft, involving the direct tapping into of power lines by third parties, manipulation of power meters or unmetered use. <br> <br> <br>
Metering systems designed for usein developed markets are not suited to conditions in which frontier market utilities operate. They are expensive and oversized, making them too expensive and ill-suited for low-income, low-consumption customers. Manual reading, bill-collection, connection and disconnection - drives up operational expenditures of already financially strapped utilities. <br> <br> <br>
Inadequate cost recovery is a systemic and endemic feature of the electricity sector in most frontier markets. Revenue for utilities is artificially capped because of government regulated tariffs. <br> <br> <br>