How To Locate Your Prepaid Meter Number

Prepaid meter top up

The introduction of prepaid meters came as an enormous relief to most Nigerians who were tired of being charged outrageous bills. Prepaid meters are beneficial because they allow you to pay for electricity only as you use them. This eliminates the need for customers to pay for estimated bills, which often resulted in customers paying more than their actual usage. Additionally, customers can monitor their usage more easily and adjust their electricity consumption to avoid overspending.

By using the prepayment method, customers can now properly budget and pay their electricity bill before using it. This shift to prepayment has resulted in improved customer satisfaction and has given customers more control over their electricity consumption. As a result, customers have more confidence in their ability to manage their electricity bills.

Just like topping up your mobile phone with airtime, so is recharging your electricity meter. Likewise, you can only get electricity if you credit your meter.

Different types of prepaid meters

There are two main types of prepaid meters: key meters and smart card meters.

A key meter uses a special electronic key with your tariff information on it.

While a smart card meter sends the latest information to your supplier when topped up.

How to locate your meter number

Each prepaid meter has its unique ID which varies in length between 11-7 digits. The meter number usually contains numbers and letters.

Each meter number has been made very easy to locate as it is often seen above or beneath a barcode on your meter. Additionally, this allows the energy provider to accurately bill the customer based on their energy usage.

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You can also find this on the front of your meter, engraved into the meter box, or printed on a sticker attached to the meter box.

Anyone can now pay their electricity bills for both prepaid and postpaid meters on Paybeta in a secure, easy, and convenient transaction. Make payments for different electricity areas on Paybeta including Ikeja Electric, Eko Electricity, Abuja Electricity, Portharcourt Electricity, Kano Electricity, and Jos Electricity.

Pay your electricity bills with Paybeta

Remember that your correct meter number must be supplied when buying prepaid electricity.

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4 thoughts on “How To Locate Your Prepaid Meter Number

  1. Dela Reply

    Sir
    Have prepaid token but I want to check which prepaid number belong with token. How check.

  2. Shalom Reply

    Thank you for this.
    How do I recharge my meter. It looks like the old prepaid meter and a card {phcn} was found there. Do I recharge the same way as the recent ones?

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