The electricity platform · Zambia → SADC

Turn kilowatt-hours
into kwacha.

Collect more of what you bill, find the energy that goes missing, and cut what it costs to serve a connection. Reading to tariff to invoice to payment to a ledger that always balances — with prepaid, mobile money, USSD and load-shedding treated as the default, not the exception.

20–35%
Non-technical loss in weaker SADC grids
Wheeling
Open-access settlement & imbalance
STS
Prepaid vending, ready
USSD
Any handset, no data
The core loop · electricity

Every electron, followed all the way to the bank.

Meter-to-cash isn’t a report you run at month-end — it’s an automated pipeline. Reading to tariff to invoice to payment to a balanced ledger, and a revenue-protection layer watching the whole way. Fuel runs the same loop, depot to forecourt — see the fuel platform.

01 · Generate Solar, grid & genset Telemetry per asset
02 · Meter Read & validate Prepaid + postpaid, VEE
03 · Rate Apply the tariff ToU, stepped, index-linked
04 · Bill Invoice & post to GL Append-only, balanced
05 · Collect Mobile money & USSD Idempotent, confirmed
06 · Protect Guard the revenue Tamper & NTL detection
A solar array at a metered, grid-connected energy site
Solar · battery · meter · grid — one site, fully metered
The electricity platform

One spine. Twenty-plus modules. Every part of running a power utility.

Not a billing tool with add-ons — a complete operating system, with each capability sharing the same tenant-isolated data, ledger and audit trail. (Fuel gets the same — on its own page.)

A —

Commercial core

meter · tariff · bill · collect

Tariff engine

Zero hard-coded rates. Time-of-use, stepped blocks, minimums, per-line VAT and levies — and index-linked tariffs that track wholesale price or FX. Simulate before you switch anyone over.

CONFIG · NOT CODE

Metering & VEE

Smart and manual, prepaid and postpaid. Validation, estimation and editing on every reading, with idempotent CSV and MQTT ingestion so a double-import never double-bills.

READINGS · QUALITY-FLAGGED

Billing & general ledger

Automated meter-to-cash runs feeding an append-only, double-entry ledger. Trial balance and VAT return that always reconcile — the books can’t be quietly rewritten.

DEBITS = CREDITS · ALWAYS

Payments

DPO Pay, MTN, Airtel, Zamtel, cards and bank transfer behind one seam. Idempotent recording and server-to-server confirmation — a dropped callback never loses a payment.

RAILS · PLUGGABLE
B —

Prepaid & credit

the way Zambia buys power

Prepaid vending

A wallet per customer and a swappable token codec — an internal voucher today, certified STS tokens tomorrow, without touching the rest of the system.

STS-READY

Pay-to-token loop

Send mobile money, receive a working token — the two halves of a prepaid purchase joined into one instant, hands-off transaction.

VEND ON CONFIRM

Credit control

Dunning ladders, top-up recovery that diverts a slice of each purchase to arrears, and friendly emergency credit to keep the lights on between paydays.

7 · 14 · 30 DAY

USSD self-service

Balance, buy-a-token and report-a-fault from any feature phone — no app, no data bundle. The tenant and customer resolve from the dialling number.

*NNN# · ANY HANDSET
C —

Energy & assets

generation, telemetry, ESG

Solar, battery & genset

An asset register with interval telemetry and threshold alerts — state of charge, generation, runtime — deduplicated while a fault stays open so nobody drowns in the same alarm.

ASSETS · MONITORED

ESG accounting

Every solar kilowatt-hour converted to diesel displaced and CO₂ avoided, and rolled into renewable-share reporting — the investor and impact story, quantified per site.

3.5 kWh/L · 2.68 kg CO₂/L

PPAs & net metering

Power-purchase agreements with escalation and performance terms, plus net-metering credit reconciled against real export readings.

GENERATE · EXPORT · SETTLE

Load-shedding aware

Zones, published windows and pre-shed notifications — so a scheduled outage reaches the customer before the dark does.

ZONES · WINDOWS · ALERTS
D —

Trust & scale

protect, finance, dispatch, comply

Revenue protection

Tamper events raised as faults, feeder energy-balance to find non-technical losses, and vending-drop anomaly detection — the leaks that quietly sink a utility.

NTL · TAMPER · ANOMALY

PAYGo financing

Pay-to-unlock devices with lock-after-grace, credit scoring and an OpenPAYGO-ready token path — solar-home-system economics, built in.

UNLOCK · SCORE

Field service

Dispatch with nearest-technician routing and SLAs, and an offline-first PWA that syncs GPS, photos and signatures when a technician gets signal back.

OFFLINE-FIRST

Compliance & data protection

ERB licence tracking, and a Data Protection Act programme that is code, not paperwork — consent, access, erasure, an immutable audit trail and hard tenant isolation.

DPA 2021 · ERB
Novea Energies

The commercial engine for the energy that powers a continent.

From a single prepaid meter in a Lusaka compound to a cross-border wheeling settlement — one platform, one ledger, one source of truth.

Utilities Mini-grid operators C&I energy providers Solar & PAYGo financiers Fuel & OMC
Photography (colour-treated), via Wikimedia Commons: solar array — U.S. Dept. of Energy, public domain · transmission lines at sunset — Kkiefuik, CC BY 4.0 · solar-sharing plant — Σ64, CC BY 3.0 · Namibian solar plant — Hp.Baumeler, CC BY-SA 4.0 · substation — Saiphani02, CC BY 4.0 · Lusaka — Icem4k, CC BY-SA 3.0. Forecourt photograph © Novea Energies.