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Pre-paid meters constitute a large share of residential electricity connections in South Africa and are undergoing a rapid expansion in the developing world. We use detailed customer transaction data from Cape Town, South Africa to characterize electricity expenditures under pre-paid metering. By ...
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Jack, B Kelsey and Grant Smith, "Pay as You Go: Prepaid Metering and Electricity Expenditures in South Africa," American Economic Review, 2015, 105 (5), 237-241.Jack, B. Kelsey and Grant Smith (2015). "Pay as You Go: Prepaid Metering and Electricity Expenditures in South Africa". In...
The notion that high rates of electricity accessibility translate to progressive human development should be applied with caution, particularly within a region like Sub-Saharan Africa. To build and understand this argument, this chapter uses knowledge generated on the South African prepaid electricity ...
We emphasise that the current state of the Free Basic Electricity (FBE) policy also fuels rejection, as it remains socio-economically inadequate and irrelevant for indigent households. We therefore note the need for an FBE policy review and update as well as the establishment of a policy ...
Temporal analysis of electricity consumption for prepaid metered low- and high-income households in Soweto, South Africadoi:10.1201/9781003036227-12Njabulo KambuleKowiyou YessoufouNnamdi NwuluCharles Mbohwa