South Africa faces a ticking clock with only 100 days remaining to overhaul its prepaid meter software. Without this urgent upgrade, the very system that powers daily life may come to a grinding halt.
Failure to complete the reset will leave residents unable to buy electricity and municipalities unable to generate revenue from the sale of prepaid electricity or water.
Not only is Eskom’s nonsense driving this new era of solar, but also the country’s growing focus on renewable sources of power and disinvestment in coal.