ENDE Prepaid Electricity Meters in Luanda
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ENDE, Angola's state electricity distributor, began installing 1.26 million prepaid meters in August 2024, over 48 months in four phases across all 21 provinces, with financing Angolan reporting puts at US$211 million from the African Development Bank. Luanda carries the largest share: about 81,000 meters installed in the areas served by the Azul and Sambizanga distribution centres, 56,897 in Viana, and 304,921 planned for the Kilamba Kiaxi centre, of which 21 per cent had been done by January 2026. These are token meters — the customer buys credit and keys in a code — with no remote reading documented. ENDE's real-time metering is a separate programme: post-paid smart meters for large industrial and commercial customers, about 17,000 installed against a 300,000 target, whose readings are channelled to a control and measurement centre the utility says is already running.
📊 Impact
The African Development Bank, announcing the Energy Sector Efficiency and Expansion Programme its board approved in December 2019: 'Around 80% of residential customers in Angola are not metered, resulting in financial losses and reliance on government subsidies', with '860,000 pre-paid meters … installed and 400,000 new customers … connected to the grid and effectively metered' in the first phase. ENDE's own Luanda progress figures in January 2026: about 81,000 meters around the Azul and Sambizanga centres, 56,897 in Viana, and 21 per cent of the 304,921 planned for Kilamba Kiaxi. No figure for recovered revenue or reduced commercial losses has been published, and the financing figures do not reconcile — the AfDB describes a US$530 million package covering 860,000 meters, while Angolan reporting attributes US$211 million to the 1.26 million-meter programme launched in 2024.
🎓 Lesson
Prepaid metering is a billing fix before it is a data system. The meters going into Luanda's homes settle payment in advance but send nothing back; the meters that report to a control room went to the large customers who were already being billed.
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1001 Smart Cities (2026). “ENDE Prepaid Electricity Meters in Luanda” — Luanda, Angola. The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/projects/luanda-ende-prepaid-meters/ (last verified 2026-08-06). Data: CC BY 4.0.
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