@inbook{4414c38d2b9a46bd90be3155ef2f6bc8,
title = "Western Africa Region",
abstract = "West Africa is one of the regions in Sub Saharan Africa and is made up of 16 nations. This chapter focuses on select countries in West Africa; specifically Ghana and Nigeria and analyses their experience with prepaid electricity metering. Ghana and Nigeria have electrification rates of 85% and 62% respectively. Prepaid metering was introduced in Ghana in the year 1995, whilst Nigeria introduced prepaid metering in 2005. Both nations introduced prepaid metering to improve revenue collection and ensure financial probity; however, this journey has not been without challenges. The primary challenge amongst others has been the lack of a nationwide prepaid metering roll-out and an unstable infrastructure for electricity units top-up. To combat this challenge, and ensure a widespread roll-out of prepaid meters, smart prepaid meters, which enable communication between the utility and the consumers, are proposed for both nations.",
keywords = "Electrification rate, Ghana, Nigeria, Prepaid metering, Smart prepaid meters, West 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_5",
language = "English",
series = "Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering",
publisher = "Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH",
pages = "79--102",
booktitle = "Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering",
address = "Germany",
}
