Eskom prepares to start its prepaid meter recode initiative to all its customers around the country.
This follows a successful roll out of a pilot project in Gauteng. The current TID code will expire on 24 November 2024 and after this date all STS compliant meters will stop accepting credit tokens.
The recoding of prepaid meters is not only an Eskom initiative, but it will be rolled out to all Eskom and municipal customers.
According to Bradley Brown, Chief Financial Officer at Drakenstein Municipality, the municipality started with the TID rollover approximately four years ago and, from the outset, it has made significant progress in revising the encryption keys. “A total of 40 497 meters, from a population of 40 854, have so far been updated,” he pointed out, “resulting in a completion rate of 99%.”
Brown said the prepaid electricity meters of Drakenstein consumers using Eskom-supplied electricity, mainly in Gouda and Saron, will now undergo the TID rollover process.
When the recoding by Eskom starts in a particular area customers in that area will get two key change tokens with their normal credit token purchases. Customers will know their recode was done correctly when their purchased credit tokens load successfully.
There is no cost to the customer for recoding their meter. Should anyone request payment for this service customers are advised to report it to the police or Eskom on 08600 37566.
