Tariffs and Billings Systems - Experience Matrix - MATA 2009

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Results of the discussions during Mata 2009 about:

Which tariffs and billing systems have been successful? Which challenges have been identified?

Country/Project/System System applied successful Challenges
Indonesia / MHP /Micro Hydro Schemes
  • Communal-set tariffs
  1. Flat rate (households)
  2. Item based (eg # of bulbs)
  3. Cluster metering
  • Overloading
  • Sanction management
Pakistan
  • Item based (eg # of bulbs)
planned in Ethiopia / EnDev / Micro Hydro Schemes
  • flat rate (no productive use) + mech.load limiter; only CLF, no social tariff
  • Expected challenges:
  1. billing - recovery rate too low
  2. monitoring of applied devices
  3. Static system
  • risk: pilot --> not cost covering

Republic South Africa / SHS

Pakistan / SHS

  • Fee for service with pre-paid metering
  1. complete financial failure
  2. conceptual design resulted in no ownership and caused vandalism, theft,...
Ghana / grid
  • Multi-level tariff
  1. prepaid and post paid metered
  2. lifetime tariff