Eskom Prepaid Meters

Eskom prepaid meters are among the most popular prepaid meter brands in South Africa. The meter has been in use for over three decades and the company has installed over 4.3 million prepaid meters for their customers.

Like other prepaid meter brands, Eskom Meters allows electricity consumers to pay for their electricity in advance. This means that their users can pay for their electricity upfront. 

The meter offers transparent electricity billing because it records when and how much electricity you consume at any given point in time and continually deducts the consumed electricity credit until your electricity units exhausts. 

Eskom prepaid meters are automated such that they interrupt power supply automatically when your prepaid credit reaches zero and continue power supply once you buy a new credit and recharge the meter.

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Eskom Prepaid Meters

These are advanced digital electricity meters for managing electricity consumption. It allows users to pay for their electricity in advance. It records when and how much electricity the user consumed and subsequently deducts the used amount from the prepaid meter credit balance until the credit finishes. 

Once the prepaid credit balance in the meter gets exhausted, the power supply will be disrupted automatically. However, power supply will be restored when you recharge new electricity token into your meter 

Its Principle: Eskom prepaid meters work on the principle of ‘’pay-as-you-go’’. Users can pay for their electricity upfront. 

The meter is made of two major components, viz., the customer interface unit (CIU) and the meter itself. Both components need to communicate effectively to enable the CIU to display the exact credit balance on its LCD screen. With this, you can monitor and track your electricity consumption in near real-time.

There is also two-way communication between Eskom and the meter. This communication helps Eskom read your meter information remotely; they will be able to detect power outages, bypasses, and any other unlawful activity and take action accordingly. 

Finally, Eskom prepaid meters have an automation that interrupts power supply when your prepaid credit balance exhausts and continues power supply whenever you top up your electricity credit. 

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Features of Eskom Prepaid Meters

Eskom prepaid meters are known for the following:

• they offer near-real-time energy usage monitoring.
• Eskom prepaid meter have tamper protection to prevent meter bypass
• It has an alarm system that will remind users when their electricity credit is low.
• It can be monitored remotely
• Eskom prepaid meters have appliance integration capabilities. 

How Eskom Prepaid Meters Works

To use the Eskom prepaid meter, you will need to do the following:

• Buy the meter from Eskom and they’ll install it for you.
• Obtain an Eskom prepaid meter card
• Buy electricity tokens from accredited and reliable vendors.
• Input the tokens into your meter’s CIU and click on the ‘’Enter’’ button
• Your prepaid electricity credit balance will display on your Customer Interface Unit.
• And guess what? Your power supply will be restored automatically and that’s all.

Eskom Prepaid Meters Contact Details

If you have any question or inquiry that you want to make about the Eskom prepaid meter, you can reach out to them through any of these numbers: 0800 11 27 22, 08600 37 566