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Tripoli
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Tripoli

Country
Libya
Population
1.2M
Projects
1
First project
2022
Best evidence
Official
Last verified
7 August 2026

🤖 AI-generated city profile, summarising the source-checked entries below — how this works

Libya has been governed from two capitals since 2014, and almost everything described as national reaches only part of the country. What can be verified in Tripoli itself is narrower and more useful: the state electricity company has been fitting prepaid card meters since a 2022 pilot in Zawiyat al-Dahmani, and since 2026 households top them up from a phone. The meter settles who has paid. It does not settle whether the power is on — the grid still sheds load on its own schedule, and the two facts sit side by side in every Tripoli household.

The atlas documents 1 project in Tripoli: 1 still running without a verdict. The entry carries an evidence grade — the strongest here is official (1 entry) — and links its sources.

All 1 project in Tripoli

✔ Every published entry is checked against the public sources it cites before publication.

⚡ GECOL Prepaid Electricity Meters 🏛️ Official since 2022 · Live →

Outcome: 1 ongoing — Evidence: 1 official

Deeper reads

Where Tripoli appears in the atlas's own analysis.

⚖️ Side by side: When the power is short

Compare with other cities

🇨🇴 Medellín Prepaid Smart Water Metering (Agua Prepago) Prepaid metering as a collection fix, and the same objection in both cities: it can disconnect households that cannot pay. 🇨🇦 Toronto Toronto Hydro Smart Meters and Ontario's Time-of-Use Pricing Two ends of the metering ladder: Ontario's remotely read time-of-use meters against Tripoli's card meters with no remote reading at all. 🇳🇦 Windhoek Prepaid Water Metering, Token by Token Closest peer: prepaid metering read by token, not telemetry — Windhoek's water, Tripoli's electricity, both cut off at zero balance.

Official strategy and sources

Tripoli Central Municipality (Baladiyat Tarabulus al-Markaz) — the documented prepaid meters belong to GECOL, the national electricity utilityThe organization driving the city's smart-city work.
📎 Cite this city

1001 Smart Cities (2026). “Smart-city projects in Tripoli, Libya.” The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/cities/tripoli/ (last verified 2026-08-07). Data: CC BY 4.0.

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