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Possibility of using Prepaid Meters as a Proposed Solution to Electricity Load Management Problem in Libya Case Study Tobruk City Mohamed.Y.B.Husain1, Abdulbasit Abdulla. AB.Ali2 1Dept.
of Electric and Electronic Engineering, Bright Star University, Brega, Libya 2Dept. of , College of Engineering Technologies, Alqubba, Libya ---------------------------------------------------------------------***---------------------------------------------------------------------transmission and distribution of electricity. So Abstract - Development is the main goal that we always someone must pay these costs in a way by the strive to achieve, especially in this important and vital sector of the State of Libya. The electricity sector faced many big government to ensure that all these costs are paid. So, problems in the last decade, so it was necessary to put forward two methods currently exist that are designed to some solutions to confront these problems, and prepaid meters recover all energy cost by both public and private were proposed as a solution to this problem. A questionnaire, sectors. These are the postpaid metering system and personal interviews and statistical analysis were prepared the prepaid metering system[5].The two ways have with using software (SPSS) in the city of Tobruk for the both advantages and disadvantages for example, purpose of inquiry about the possibility of installing prepaid postpaid meters lead to payment delays, debt meters instead of postpaid meters. Through this research, it accumulation, billing manipulations, and lack of was found that the majority agreed on the process of moving transparency, where as prepaid meters are more to this system because it achieves complete comfort in terms of transparent and guarantee prepaid rights to the service the payment system, tracking and reducing consumption. provider. However, prepaid meters represents a problem for families with limited income in terms of Key Words: Prepaid meters, postpaid, energy consumption, Tobruk, Libya paying bills in advance for obtaining electrical energy. On the other hand, prepaid meter systems have proven 1.INTRODUCTION to be highly efficient compared to postpaid systems, as the prepaid meter allows monitoring of consumption Libya is considered as a very important country in the as it is more efficient and more flexible between the whole of Africa in terms of its location and natural consumer and the supplier. In addition, this idea has resources[1]. In the last century, a rapid development proven a great success in several countries such as in most sectors leads to a huge demand in electricity Argentina, South Africa and the United Kingdom[5]. sector, especially since 2010, the rate of consumption Recent studies have discussed the negative and increased about five times in comparison with the positive effects of using prepaid meters on electrical consumption in other countries. So the consumption of power systems. For example, a comparison was made electricity per capita has been increased from 338KWh in the city of Unguja in Tanzania between prepaid and in 1970 to 4561KWh in 2010, which is the year that postpaid meters, and it was found that the great last report has been issued from the general electric satisfaction of the consumer relative to the supplier in company of Libya (GECOL). Therefore, after 2010 the terms of reducing the percentage of debt accumulation, demand for electricity sharply increased with the which was a major obstacle for both the provider and increase in random housing construction, which caused consumer[6]. In another study was conducted in India major problems for the electricity sector due to the in the state of Maharashtra, Mahapatra and Gulhar increase in loads with the lack of generation, which led found that the majority of the population were very to the deterioration of the electrical network, as well as satisfied with this experience and were ready to the the blackout significantly, which affected the change from the old systems represented in postpaid consumer[2, 3]. However, Generation is not the main meters to prepaid systems[7]. Moreover, another study problem, but load management was the main cause of took place in Germany in the same year in the city of the electricity problem in Libya, given the excessive use Wigan, many families preferred the option of prepaid of electricity by consumers without paying any bills to meters to provide many advantages[8]. In another cover this consumption. Also, there are many study on Nigerian families, Baptista 2015 conducted consumers who do not have any meters to measure some experiments on the residents of the city of electrical loads[4]. However, access to electric energy is Maputo, where the prepaid meters system had an considered an essential right for every citizen, as advantage over traditional meters[9]. Malma et al issued by the United Nations in 2015, but this right is 2014, conducted a study in which explained the effect very expensive considering the cost of generation, © 2021, IRJET
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