Recharger Prepaid Meters, a member of Master Builders KwaZulu-Natal, is here to help you and your clients with planning energy consumption more efficiently – right from the design, planning and building stages.

Recharger is a leading supplier of prepaid electricity sub-meters, tokens and token vending solutions nationally and internationally, with its headquarters based in Durban. We have installed more than 200,000 Recharger sub-meters for commercial, industrial and residential clients, across any sector requiring utility management.

With a comprehensive range of sub-meters, which meet international standards, our products are ideal for property owners, contractors, and facilities managers wanting to manage electricity consumption more efficiently.

A selling point for builders, contractors and facilities managers

A study based in Cape Town has shown that – on average - customers reduced their electricity use, when switched from postpaid monthly bills to prepaid electricity metering, by 1.9 to 2.2 kWh per customer per day, or 12 to 15 percent[1].  

This clearly represents a significant saving and is therefore a recommendation to all business types that they consider installing a prepaid electricity sub-meter for their premises in order to see significant savings on their energy billing.

From the perspective of the planning and building stages, this allows builders and contractors to present a unique selling point to their clients from the word go: the ability to manage their energy consumption in this simple, easy yet extremely effective manner.

The advantages are as follows:

• Installing a prepaid electricity sub-meter will assist building owners, and facilities managers to work together in measuring and monitoring electricity consumption.
• This helps to prevent disputes on utilities bills.
• It allows prospective tenants to budget for this section of their overheads.
• It also helps facilities managers to learn about their clients’ average electricity consumption and build this into transparent and realistic rental pricings moving forward.

Acquiring and installing a pre-paid electricity sub-meter

Safety first – a registered electrician must install the pre-paid electricity sub-meter, as follows:

Installing and activating: A registered electrician must install the sub-meter. Once the registration form is completed and sent to Recharger with the necessary documents, it will be processed and you will receive an SMS to notify you that your sub-meter is activated.

Registering your sub-meter: It is easy to register your Recharger prepaid sub-meter(s). The registration forms are included with each sub-meter and you can use one form for multiple sub-meters. Once completed, take a clear photo and send the completed registration form back to Recharger via WhatsApp, fax or e-mail.

Recharging: Use the unique number on each card that comes with your sub-meter to buy prepaid electricity tokens from a variety of online and mobile vendors, retail stores, banks and petrol stations. You will receive a credit token with a 20-digit number. Simply enter the number on your sub-meter keypad and press the red or blue button to recharge.

Purchasing prepaid electricity tokens: Recharger prepaid electricity tokens can be purchased countrywide from numerous retail outlets like Checkers, Spar, Dischem, Shoprite or Boxer stores. Consumers can also get tokens at banks including FNB, Absa, Nedbank and Standard Bank, and petrol stations such as Shell, Sasol, Caltex, Engen and BP. Alternatively, consumers can buy tokens online from the Recharger Pay Portal or PayCity, as well as from mobile vendors using Flash and Kazang.

As a member of Master Builders KwaZulu-Natal, Recharger Prepaid Meters is part of a tried-and-trusted network of compatible and like-minded organisations which have come together for over 100 years to form this building community. Please feel free to contact us if you would like to know more about our products and services, so that we can create a solution tailor-made to your needs, together.

Recharger Prepaid Meters

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Contact us as follows:

Office telephone: 081 791 8379

Website: https://www.recharger.co.za/

Email: marketing@recharger.co.za

Source: https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w22895/w22895.pdf