Libya has been governed from two capitals since 2014, and almost everything described as national reaches only part of the country. What can be verified in Tripoli itself is narrower and more useful: the state electricity company has been fitting prepaid card meters since a 2022 pilot in Zawiyat al-Dahmani, and since 2026 households top them up from a phone. The meter settles who has paid. It does not settle whether the power is on — the grid still sheds load on its own schedule, and the two facts sit side by side in every Tripoli household.

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Compare with other cities

• 🇨🇴 Medellín: Prepaid Smart Water Metering (Agua Prepago) Prepaid metering as a collection fix, and the same objection in both cities: it can disconnect households that cannot pay.
• 🇨🇦 Toronto: Toronto Hydro Smart Meters and Ontario's Time-of-Use Pricing Two ends of the metering ladder: Ontario's remotely read time-of-use meters against Tripoli's card meters with no remote reading at all.
• 🇳🇦 Windhoek: Prepaid Water Metering, Token by Token Closest peer: prepaid metering read by token, not telemetry — Windhoek's water, Tripoli's electricity, both cut off at zero balance.
• 🇲🇱 Bamako: EDM-SA Published Load-Shedding Schedule for Bamako Two capitals rationing the same way: Bamako publishes when the power goes off, Tripoli meters who has paid while the grid sheds anyway.