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Prepaid Meters on a Grid Run by Phone

Revision 2026-08-15-baseline · effective 2026-08-15

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Created the first structured Evidence Passport with 11 claims and 5 source dossiers.

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publication dates recorded
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content captures hashed

Claims, one by one

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.

Claim 1 clm-6926ea266e8d589b descriptive
bills electricity through prepayment
Published field
snippet · verbatim
Mapping
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What the mapping says
The policy brief states the power sector runs a prepayment billing structure.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Middle East Council on Global Affairs — Rebuilding Sudan's Energy Sector (2025)
Claim 2 clm-bd40ed19a1ae51fb descriptive
keeps an extensive, geo-referenced database of grid consumers
Published field
snippet · verbatim
Mapping
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What the mapping says
Quote: the Sudanese Electricity Holding Company 'has an extensive database on grid consumers, with geospatial information and sectoral disaggregation'.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Middle East Council on Global Affairs — Rebuilding Sudan's Energy Sector (2025)
Claim 3 clm-682637f16c139675 quantitative
in April 2023 the RSF took over the national load dispatch centre in Khartoum
Published field
snippet · verbatim
Mapping
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What the mapping says
The World Bank report records the RSF takeover of the national load dispatch centre in Khartoum in April 2023.
Caveat
The report PDF downloads but resists text extraction; the passage was confirmed via the report's indexed text.

Sources carrying this claim

  1. World Bank — Updates of Electricity and Petroleum Report in Sudan, September 2024
Claim 4 clm-c6a87eb780129f42 descriptive
run the grid manually, coordinating by cell phone
Published field
snippet · verbatim
Mapping
mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this passport
What the mapping says
The report states SETCO has been operating the national grid manually using cell-phone communications.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. World Bank — Updates of Electricity and Petroleum Report in Sudan, September 2024
Claim 5 clm-b8c2c4f80bb8e356 descriptive
split into a northern and a southern half
Published field
snippet · verbatim
Mapping
mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this passport
What the mapping says
The report describes the grid as practically separated into a Northern Grid and a Southern Grid after damage concentrated in Khartoum.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. World Bank — Updates of Electricity and Petroleum Report in Sudan, September 2024
Claim 6 clm-d590db602656a4de quantitative
Up to 40% of the country's generation capacity had been lost by 2025
Published field
snippet · verbatim
Mapping
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What the mapping says
Quote: 'As of 2025, up to 40% of Sudan's energy generation capacity had been lost due to the conflict.'
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Middle East Council on Global Affairs — Rebuilding Sudan's Energy Sector (2025)
Claim 7 clm-e6e2cb262d3f3b68 descriptive
Khartoum proper's distribution network remained largely destroyed
Published field
snippet · verbatim
Mapping
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What the mapping says
Xinhua's July 2025 feature: 'The city's power grid is largely destroyed, beyond repair by government or community efforts.'
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Xinhua — Sudan's Khartoum strives to recover amid ongoing civil war (5 Jul 2025)
Claim 8 clm-e2eb5e9856de2912 descriptive
paying black-market prices for generator diesel
Published field
snippet · verbatim
Mapping
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What the mapping says
Xinhua reports households running diesel generators at over 30,000 Sudanese pounds (about $11, Xinhua's conversion) per gallon on the black market.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Xinhua — Sudan's Khartoum strives to recover amid ongoing civil war (5 Jul 2025)
Claim 9 clm-a485969672d8f47c quantitative
more than 20 substations rehabilitated and over 1,700 km of transmission lines repaired
Published field
snippet · verbatim
Mapping
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What the mapping says
The energy ministry's 2026 statement, as reported by Sudan Tribune, lists 20+ substations rehabilitated and 1,700+ km of lines repaired, with 260 MW restored.
Caveat
Ministry self-reporting; Sudan Tribune blocks automated access — confirmed via search snippets and the Eastleigh Voice syndication.

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Sudan Tribune — Sudan blames power cuts on Ethiopian line halt, damage to grid (2026)
Claim 10 clm-028c17a7991a97aa quantitative
power cuts of up to 18 hours a day
Published field
snippet · verbatim
Mapping
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What the mapping says
Sudan Tribune reports 18-hour daily cuts across Khartoum and other states in 2026; Al Jazeera describes the cuts disrupting nearly every aspect of daily life.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Sudan Tribune — Sudan blames power cuts on Ethiopian line halt, damage to grid (2026)
  2. Al Jazeera — Sudan power crisis: studying using candles (16 Apr 2026)
Claim 11 clm-eadb55a8952395c8 descriptive
announced through ministry statements rather than a published rationing schedule
Published field
snippet · verbatim
Mapping
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What the mapping says
The ministry says load shedding is 'managed in accordance with technical standards' but names no public timetable; searches found no published schedule for Khartoum.
Caveat
An absence finding: based on what the reporting does not show, not on a source stating no schedule exists.

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Sudan Tribune — Sudan blames power cuts on Ethiopian line halt, damage to grid (2026)

Source dossiers and revision state

This layer records what is known about each source, what is still missing, and the exact snapshot this page is rendering. A missing date, archive or hash stays visible as missing.

unreviewed Revision 2026-08-15-baseline effective 2026-08-15 · created 2026-08-15

Awaiting operator and domain-expert review; publication of this revision implies neither.

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Revision history → Permanent version link → Machine-readable record → Evidence Constitution →
11
of 11 claims mapped
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source dossiers
2
publication dates recorded
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archives linked
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exact locators
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content captures hashed

Governance facts carried by the record

Operator
Sudanese Electricity Distribution Company (SEDC) and Sudanese Electricity Transmission Company (SETCO), under the Sudanese Electricity Holding Company
Actor types
utility, national-government
Funding model
utility
Funding description
Not recorded
Cost
Not recorded
Ownership
Not recorded
Decision rights
Not recorded
Exit conditions
Not recorded

5 source dossiers

World Bank — Updates of Electricity and Petroleum Report in Sudan, September 2024 documents1.worldbank.org · 3 linked claims

Open original source ↗

Stable source ID
src-2b84446e6984cc79
Publisher
Name not classified · documents1.worldbank.org
Type / language
pdf · language not classified
Published
Not recorded
Updated
Not recorded
Source last checked
No source-level check date
Record last verified
2026-08-15
Dossier created
2026-08-15
Retrieved copy
No local capture recorded
Archive
No archived copy linked
Content hash
No captured content hash
Locator
Open the recorded source note

Carries the April 2023 RSF takeover of the national load dispatch centre in Khartoum, SETCO's manual cell-phone grid operation and the north/south grid split. The PDF downloads but its text is CID-encoded and resisted extraction in the sandbox; passages confirmed via the report's indexed text in search results.

Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Claims linked
Middle East Council on Global Affairs — Rebuilding Sudan's Energy Sector (2025) mecouncil.org · 3 linked claims

Open original source ↗

Stable source ID
src-a8d18efc0a958c3f
Publisher
Name not classified · mecouncil.org
Type / language
web-page · language not classified
Published
Not recorded
Updated
Not recorded
Source last checked
No source-level check date
Record last verified
2026-08-15
Dossier created
2026-08-15
Retrieved copy
No local capture recorded
Archive
No archived copy linked
Content hash
No captured content hash
Locator
Open the recorded source note

Fetched in full: up to 40% of generation capacity lost by 2025; the prepayment billing structure and the holding company's geo-referenced consumer database; 62% pre-war electricity access.

Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Claims linked
Sudan Tribune — Sudan blames power cuts on Ethiopian line halt, damage to grid (2026) sudantribune.com · 3 linked claims

Open original source ↗

Stable source ID
src-1d681698acb71654
Publisher
Name not classified · sudantribune.com
Type / language
web-page · language not classified
Published
Not recorded
Updated
Not recorded
Source last checked
No source-level check date
Record last verified
2026-08-15
Dossier created
2026-08-15
Retrieved copy
No local capture recorded
Archive
No archived copy linked
Content hash
No captured content hash
Locator
Open the recorded source note

Ministry rehabilitation figures (20+ substations, 1,700+ km lines, 260 MW restored, ~600 MW expected) and the load-shedding statement; site 403-walls automated fetches — confirmed via search snippets and the Eastleigh Voice syndication of the same statement.

Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Claims linked
Al Jazeera — Sudan power crisis: studying using candles (16 Apr 2026) aljazeera.com · 1 linked claim

Open original source ↗

Stable source ID
src-c89ab8842209c345
Publisher
Name not classified · aljazeera.com
Type / language
web-page · language not classified
Published
2026-04-16
Updated
Not recorded
Source last checked
No source-level check date
Record last verified
2026-08-15
Dossier created
2026-08-15
Retrieved copy
No local capture recorded
Archive
No archived copy linked
Content hash
No captured content hash
Locator
Open the recorded source note

Fetched: April 2026 daily-life impact of the cuts in Khartoum ('no longer just a temporary power outage… a daily reality').

Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Claims linked
Xinhua — Sudan's Khartoum strives to recover amid ongoing civil war (5 Jul 2025) english.news.cn · 2 linked claims

Open original source ↗

Stable source ID
src-dde7f2d08ae80807
Publisher
Name not classified · english.news.cn
Type / language
web-page · language not classified
Published
2025-07-05
Updated
Not recorded
Source last checked
No source-level check date
Record last verified
2026-08-15
Dossier created
2026-08-15
Retrieved copy
No local capture recorded
Archive
No archived copy linked
Content hash
No captured content hash
Locator
Open the recorded source note

Fetched: Khartoum proper's grid 'largely destroyed' in mid-2025, households on generators with black-market diesel over 30,000 SDG (about $11, Xinhua's conversion) per gallon; Omdurman and Bahri better off.

Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Claims linked
Known limits of this passport
  • Publisher names and source languages have not yet been classified; domains are recorded without guessing.
  • Existing source notes are descriptive locators, not page- or paragraph-exact citations.
  • A missing archive, publication date or content hash is shown as null rather than inferred.
  • The project-level evidence grade ranks the strongest source in the entry; it is not a truth score for every claim.