Charging Ahead: Prepaid Metering, Electricity Use, and Utility Revenue

Charging ahead: Prepaid metering, electricity use and utility revenue⇤

The standard approach to recovering the cost of electricity provision is to bill customers monthly for past consumption. If unable to pay, customers face disconnection, the utility loses revenue, and the service provision model is undermined. A possible solution to this problem is prepaid metering, in which customers buy electricity upfront and use it until the prepaid amount is consumed. We us...

Review and Synthesis of Road-Use Metering and Charging Systems

Mobile Internet charging: prepaid vs. postpaid

This engineering note is about prepaid charging and comparing prepaid charging with post paid charging. I also try to find out what kind of challenges mobile Internet will bring in prepaid world.

Prepaid Metering System by using PLC and SCADA

There are certain losses which affect the economy of the power system. In India the percentage of power losses has been quite high. The most prominent forms of non-technical losses in India are electricity theft and non-payment of bills. This is great loss for government. It is estimated that electricity theft and nonpayment of bills cost in our country is in billions a year. The objective of t...

Towards Flexible Metering & Charging for Information Services

The Internet itself has witnessed incredibly rapid growth in the last five years, thanks to the popularity and ubiquity of user-friendly Web clients like Netscape’s Navigator and Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. Many organisations now consider a presence on the World Wide Web to be vital to their commercial interests. However, due to the absence of a suitable remuneration mechanism, most Internet...