Towards secure and intelligent metering

Smart metering, the answer to the African power crisis?

With the recent high rate of power outages that South Africa is experiencing, the country is in the midst of its worst ever power crisis.

Smart metering for residential customers is one of a number of interventions that have been proposed by the South African government as part of a National Electricity Emergency Program to alleviate the country’s growing energy crisis. The smart meter technology would be installed in at least 3 million houses.

On the other hand, the power rationing plan is being drafted and should start being implemented from March in order to improve system security and enable initial recovery of power feeding the national grid.

Your metering, billing and customer management functions will be crucial in the implementation of the upcoming plans devised to solve the power crisis in Africa.

• What are other utilities in Africa doing to ensure their metering and customer management initiatives alleviate the growing power shortage?
• How have they implemented new metering and billing strategies in the context of electricity rationing programmes?
• What new metering and billing products and services are available to conserve energy, save costs and satisfy customers?

Now in its 9th year, Metering, Billing/CRM Africa is firmly established as the essential meeting place for metering, billing and customer management professionals and as a vital resource for information gathering and sharing with like-minded industry specialists and decision makers.

The event is focused on emerging strategies and technologies for all customer-end service delivery and revenue collection systems for Africa. Topics to be discussed include energy management, revenue management, revenue protection, tariff structuring, TOU tariffs, metering technologies including AMR, smart metering and smart grids, remote management, meter data management, prepayment, billing systems, payment solutions, and customer relationship management.

Why attend? 8 reasons why you can not afford not to participate in the singular must-attend event for the utilities metering, billing and CRM industry:

Discuss the new regulatory frameworks on energy management See how Demand Side Management and tariff design overlap Gain insight into how AMI can play a key role in energy losses management, predictive maintenance, outage management and improved operational efficiency Hear international case studies on smart metering Explore the synergies between prepayment and AMI Discover the value of the metering data and how it can be leveraged Hear about the strategies to change your customers’ mindset and behaviour for energy conservation Get return on investments from the next-generation solutions and technologies presented

For more information, please contact Nicolaas Loretz:
Phone: +27 21 700 3500
Fax: +27 21 700 3501
Email: nicolaas.loretz@spintelligent.com