@inbook{58657cae94aa49f9bf1c7c30f1a525e0,
title = "Rationale Part I: Historical Development and Market Expansion",
abstract = "Since the arrival of traditional prepaid electricity meters over three decades ago, there has been a marked surge in the deployment and utilisation of household electricity meters in the Sub-Saharan Africa region. Countries like Mozambique, South Africa, and Tanzania currently stand as regional leaders with more than 50% of the respective country household sector under this technology. We note that the Sub-Saharan region prepaid technology market is the fastest growing in the world is expected to peak even higher by 2034 with the deployment rate increasing by 234%. Tied to the expanding smart grid spaces in the region, we equally anticipate that the use of smart prepaid electricity meters (SPEM) technology will also begin to dominate in the coming decades. Strangely, while the market is growing so rapidly we find that there is still paucity with research focusing on this prepaid electricity meter market, the drivers to this, and its role in the electrification programme in the region.",
keywords = "Conventional meters, Electrification, Households, Prepaid meter, Sub-Saharan Africa",
author = "Njabulo Kambule and Nnamdi Nwulu",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021.",
year = "2021",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-030-71217-4_2",
language = "English",
series = "Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering",
publisher = "Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH",
pages = "23--31",
booktitle = "Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering",
address = "Germany",
}
