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Source note corrected: it said the vendor page carries no date while its metadata dates the post 20 December 2024. The four sources without a date answer now carry one or an explicit null, and the journal article's label names its online publication date instead of its volume year.
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replace /snapshot/projectFingerprint — Updated projectFingerprint to the current sourced project record.replace /snapshot/sources — Updated sources to the current sourced project record.The text below is copied verbatim from the published record. Each claim names the source dossiers that carry it; caveats stay attached to the claim they qualify.
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North Cairo Electricity Distribution Company, the state distributor for Cairo Governorate and southern Qalyubia, is replacing about 490,000 mechanical meters with remotely read ones in the sectors under its Helmiyet el-Zaytoun control centre, which is itself being rebuilt
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Elsewedy Electric T&D and Toyota Tsusho signed the engineering contract on 30 November 2020, financed by a Japanese ODA loan through JICA
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This is not a prepayment scheme. The company describes a meter with no top-up card: consumption is read remotely, the subscriber receives an SMS bill and pays online, the meter flags tampering, and the utility can cut supply without a site visit
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A separate and larger conversion to prepaid card meters runs alongside it at the same company
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Toyota Tsusho expected the system to start operating in mid-2023 and the ministry described a 30-month build; installation actually began in Hadayek el-Qubba in April 2025, in a first phase of roughly 50,000 meters
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The promised cuts in outages and distribution losses remain projections, and no cumulative installed figure has been published
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within a three-company programme of roughly 965,000 meters costing about US$226M that also serves Alexandria and North Delta
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Chairman Hesham Afifi set a 2024/25 target of 217,000 smart meters — 190,000 through the JICA project and 27,000 for large subscribers — alongside 317,000 conversions to prepaid cards
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Every figure here is a utility, ministry or contractor statement relayed by the press; no audit and no independent evaluation of loss reduction, outage frequency or collection performance was located
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Reading a country's metering statistics without separating the two produces a number that means nothing
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src-13cc491423f97ccaFetched. Authority, and the scope anchor: the governorate lists NCEDC among its own entities and defines its service area as Cairo Governorate plus the southern extension of Qalyubia. Carries no subscriber numbers and nothing on this project.
src-075af533ffc3773fFetched. Verifies the client (EEHC and NCEDC), the consortium with Elsewedy Electric, the Hitachi ABB distribution management system, approximately 500,000 meters to be replaced, a contract worth approximately JPY 10bn, and financing by a Japanese ODA loan through JICA. Also the source of the missed schedule: it states operation was expected to commence in mid-2023.
src-caebafe77de4285dFetched. Dates the signing to 30 November 2020 and values the North Cairo component at about US$96M. Its figures for blackout reduction and theft prevention are stated as expectations at signing, not measured results, and are not used as impact in this entry.
src-3e07126100005763Fetched. Gives the deployment footprint (Helmiya, Matariya, Marg), the 490,000 meters, about US$90M with JICA financing, the new Helmiya sector control centre, a 30-month implementation period from November 2020, and the wider three-company programme of about 965,000 meters for about US$226M. Reports no installed count.
src-e57aff04c6e20b7cFetched. Technical detail: IE.5 single-phase and IE.7 three-phase meters, G3-PLC or GPRS/3G/4G modems, AC750 data concentrators, head-end system, five-year operation and maintenance. Decisive on the mechanism question: it describes remote reading only and mentions no prepayment functionality. Vendor material, so used for specification, not for outcomes.
src-77901fa1fc0b5db1Records the factory acceptance test of the IE.5 single-phase meters at Kranj, Slovenia, with NCEDC, TEPSCO, EEHC and Elsewedy Electric T&D present. The page shows no date on screen; its metadata dates the post 20 December 2024 (revised 16 January 2025), so the test had taken place by then. It is cited as confirmation that the meters reached acceptance testing, not as a measure of rollout progress.
src-8f3ca69dd7dd95f9Fetched. The most recent dated status found: NCEDC announces the start of installation in Hadayek el-Qubba, a first phase of about 50,000 meters against a 490,000 target under the Helmiyet el-Zaytoun control centre. Describes the meter as working without a top-up card, with an SMS bill paid via Fawry or online, electronic theft detection, remote disconnection for non-payment, and replacement at no cost to the subscriber.
src-44033cfcc64746fdFetched. Chairman Hesham Afifi gives the FY2024/25 plan: 217,000 smart meters, of which 190,000 through the JICA project and 27,000 for large subscribers, plus 317,000 conversions to prepaid meters. This is the sentence that separates the two programmes and prevents them being reported as one.
src-e3d5663ede4fe481Fetched. Records the Electricity Distribution System Improvement Project for Alexandria, North Cairo and North Delta: donor Japan, loan of JPY 24,762M, beneficiary the Ministry of Electricity and Renewable Energy, locations including Cairo. Flagged discrepancy: this page dates the loan signature to 10 February 2022, while press reports refer to a 2016 loan agreement and an EPC contract signed in November 2020. The entry therefore asserts only the EPC contract date, not a loan date.
src-c2bf434939c3fcbbFetch blocked (HTTP 403); title, author, journal, volume and argument confirmed via the publisher listing and search results. Concerns the SEPARATE nationwide prepaid-card rollout, not this AMI project, and is cited only to show that the prepaid track has drawn peer-reviewed critical scrutiny while this one has none. Contains no figures used in this entry.