Cape Town rolls out new compulsory electricity meters

The Metropolis of Cape City’s power directorate is rolling out new, smarter pay as you go electrical energy meters throughout the metro to scale back the chance of incorrect readings and enhance power utilization.

The power directorate will roll out these meters to households in April and over the subsequent few months.

CAPE TOWN ROLLING OUT NEW ELECTRICITY METERS

The Metropolis of Cape City stated this programme is obligatory and free, serving to clients in some ways by decreasing the chance of incorrect readings, bettering power utilization for residents and enabling qualifying clients to learn from the subsidised Lifeline tariff.

Mayoral Committee Member for Vitality, Alderman Xanthea Limberg stated the Metropolis’s contractor will change older credit score and pay as you go meters with new pay as you go meters in areas equipped by the Metropolis of Cape City throughout the metro.

Limberg stated when it’s time to interchange a meter, residents will obtain a letter at house or a name from a workers member to rearrange an appointment. After scheduling, clients can, if they need, verify the authenticity of their appointment by phoning the Metropolis’s Name Centre at 0860 103 089.

Limberg additionally hailed the Cape City electrical energy meter alternative programme as useful for residents.

“The brand new meters assist with managing prices, ensures correct readings and assists residents to regulate and monitor utilization. Additionally they permit eligible residents to modify to the reasonably priced Lifeline Tariff, which incorporates free primary electrical energy.

“Importantly, the worth of electrical energy is identical for each outdated credit score meters and new pay as you go meters. We encourage all residents to work with us as we proceed to roll out these meters throughout the metro,” Limberg stated.

THE ROLL OUT WILL TAKE PLACE IN THE FOLLOWING AREAS:

April – June 2025

Woodstock
Salt River
Observatory
Foreshore

July – September 2025

Mowbray
Rosebank
Rondebosch
Rondebosch East
Newlands

HERE’S WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW

The roll-out of the brand new electrical energy meters is a obligatory programme
Meter alternative allows Lifeline tariff advantages
New meters don’t ‘use’ extra electrical energy, they merely measure the utilization
No distinction in utilization of electrical energy between the outdated and new meters
New meters are a part of an funding in correct and new electrical infrastructure
Electrical energy meters are the property of the Metropolis and cheap entry to premises is required by way of the regulation

Residents have been urged to at all times confirm the work order quantity when an official visits their house and examine the official’s Metropolis-issued identification card.

“The ID card should show the Metropolis brand, the identify and surname of the workers member or mandated contractor, and should comprise an embedded photograph of the workers member or mandated contractor. If not sure, name the Metropolis’s Name Centre on 0860 103 089. Report suspicious behaviour to the Metropolis’s regulation enforcement companies or to the SAPS,” the Metropolis of Cape City urged.