A 1.7 MW plant in the Boeny region of Madagascar, commissioned in 2022 and described by the operator as the first plant in the country to bill its customers through mobile-prepayment metering. Together with its twin Sahatona, it took the operating portfolio past the 4 MW mark.
Version française →Ambatosia Bealalana is located in Boeny, on Madagascar’s western coast. Commissioned in 2022 as a twin programme to Sahatona — same year, same delivery framework, same consortium — it lifted the alliance’s operating portfolio in Madagascar past 4 MW and serves around 2,200 households.
The plant is described by its operator as the first in Madagascar to bill customers through mobile-prepayment metering. The model is straightforward: a customer tops up credit using mobile money, the meter dispenses electricity against that credit, and revenue arrives before the energy is consumed.
For rural utilities, this matters more than any single technical figure. The two classic failure points of small grids are collection cost and cash-handling risk — sending staff village to village to collect payments, and the leakage that comes with it. Prepaid metering removes both: the operator’s revenue is settled digitally, in advance, and the field team’s job becomes maintenance instead of debt collection.
Ambatosia is the working proof that this model runs on a multi-megawatt hydro plant in Madagascar — not only on small solar mini-grids.
| Key fact | Detail |
|---|---|
| Plant | Ambatosia Bealalana HPP |
| Location | Boeny region, Madagascar |
| Installed capacity | 1.7 MW |
| Commissioned | 2022 |
| Billing model | Mobile-prepayment metering (operator-described first in Madagascar) |
| Supplied loads | 2,200 households |
| Status | In operation |
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