ECG Smart Prepaid Metering in Greater Accra
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The new prepaid meters report consumption straight to the utility. When customers said their credit was draining too fast, the regulator gave ECG 48 hours to explain, and only one side could read the data.
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Ghana's state utility began swapping Greater Accra's postpaid and legacy meters for prepaid meters tied to a central Meter Management System in 2024 - ECG can read consumption remotely, flag tampering and let customers vend credit anywhere. ECG announced 450,000 replacements in Accra West and 250,000 in Accra East. The regulator summoned it over depletion complaints in February 2026.
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A meter that reports back to the utility does not report to the customer. Two years into the rollout the regulator gave ECG 48 hours to explain why prepaid units were draining faster than expected - and neither side could settle it from the meter data, which only one of them can read.
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1001 Smart Cities (2026). “ECG Smart Prepaid Metering in Greater Accra” — Accra, Ghana. The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/projects/accra-ecg-smart-prepaid-metering/ (last verified 2026-08-01). Data: CC BY 4.0.
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