The Electricity Control Board (ECB) says its Token Identifier (TID) roll-over campaign is complete, with a 95% execution rate.
ECB Chief Executive Officer Robert Kahimise said the campaign concluded on 24 November 2024, with 314,084 out of 329,347 prepaid electricity meters successfully rolled over.
However, he noted that 15,263 prepaid meters had not yet been updated by the cut-off date.
“ECB engaged the relevant licensees on an interim solution. Arrangements were made between those affected customers and their respective licensees by availing credits before the cut-off date or installing conventional meters whilst awaiting meter replacement,” he said.
He further indicated that licensees are in the process of submitting their final project close-off reports to the ECB for monitoring and evaluation.
“I wish to thank all electricity consumers for their cooperation, which contributed towards the success of the TID roll-over exercise,” Kahimise said.
This comes as in 2023 only 13.4% of the total of 321,278 electricity metre boxes that need to be upgraded under the program have been attended to.
TID is a 24-bit field contained in a Standard Identification Specifications (STS) compliance token for the electricity prepayment meter that identifies the date and time of the token generation.
The TID is used to determine if an STS token has already been used in a prepayment meter. After a certain period (30 years), the TID in the token will reset back to zero, hence the need for an upgrade.
The TID roll-over project involves entering two TID tokens by the distribution licensee or its representative to update the customer prepayment meter from Key Revision 1 (KRN1) to Key Revision 2 (KRN2) and does not have any impact on the end consumer tariff and prepayment meter accuracy.
