How to Recharge Prepaid Meter in 2024

Perhaps your prepaid electricity unit has run out and you want to get it recharged but don’t know how to go about it. Well, there is no cause for alarm, as that’s really a simple task to do. I will show you in this article a simple guide on how to recharge a prepaid meter.

A prepaid meter is different from a postpaid or estimated bill. So if you are using a prepaid meter, you will always need to have some electricity units in the prepaid meter for there to be a power supply in your house. Whenever it gets exhausted, you will always need to recharge it.

To recharge your prepaid meter, you need to first purchase the prepaid meter token from either your electricity distribution company’s website, your bank’s mobile app, or on VTU Base.

Then, after purchasing the prepaid meter token, you can go ahead and load the token on your prepaid meter. Once this is done, there will be power in your house.

How to Recharge Prepaid Meter (purchasing prepaid meter token)

• Visit your bank’s mobile app or VTU Base.
• Create an account or login if you already have one.
• Click on “Bill payments.”.
• Click on Utilities.
• Choose your electricity distribution company.
• Choose prepaid as your product type.
• Enter your meter number.
• Enter the phone number to recieve the meter token.
• Enter the amount of money you want to buy.
• Click on pay.

Once you complete the above steps successfully, the meter token is going to be sent as SMS to the phone you provided. You can also find the meter token on the transaction receipt.

So even if they didn’t send the meter token to your phone number or there is no provision for inputing phone number, you can simply find the meter token on the transaction receipt on the website or mobile app that you used.

Once you get the meter token, the next thing is to load it in your prepaid meter; just as we load recharge card on our phone.

How to Recharge Prepaid Meter with Token

Now that you have purchased your prepaid meter token, you can now proceed to load the token.

• Plug in your prepaid meter CIU to a power source.
• Enter the prepaid 20-digit prepaid meter token.
• then click on enter button which is red in colour.
• If you got it correctly, it should show “success.”

For more highlights, you can watch our Youtube video below on how to load prepaid meter token.

Conclusion

If your unit is low or has finished, your light maybe disrupted, and the only way to restore it is through recharging your meter. Once your meter is recharged, your light will be restored. 

Recharging your prepaid meter is simple; to recharge your prepaid meter, you first need to buy the meter token on VTU Base or your bank mobile. Then you proceeed and load the token on the prepaid meter.