Elektroprivreda Crne Gore has launched a procurement procedure to upgrade the billing system that converts electricity-meter data into customer invoices, recorded revenue and collection information.
The planned software will be integrated with Oracle E-Business Suite and the AMM remote-metering platform. Bids are due by 10 August 2026, following publication of the procurement notice on 10 July.
Although presented as an IT procurement, the system sits inside one of EPCG’s most important commercial processes. It connects customers, supply contracts, metering points, tariffs, discounts, outstanding debt and payments. Any failure can affect invoice accuracy, revenue recognition, complaints and monthly cash collection.
The AMM system, operated within Montenegro’s metering framework, remotely collects and processes consumption data. The billing platform must then assign those readings to the correct customer and tariff period before producing an invoice and transferring the financial information into EPCG’s corporate systems.
The upgrade comes as EPCG prepares a larger investment cycle involving solar generation, wind development, hydropower assets and digital services. The company is also seeking approval for up to €64.22 million of long-term financing for ten renewable projects with a combined capacity of 95.87 MW.
That portfolio is expected to produce approximately 124,518 MWh annually. EPCG has projected first-year revenue of around €20.7 million and EBITDA close to €20 million, making reliable billing, collection and customer-account management increasingly relevant to liquidity planning.
A modern billing platform should reduce manual intervention, accelerate the treatment of monthly readings and strengthen the audit trail between metered consumption and recorded revenue. It can also support more advanced tariffs, prosumer arrangements and differentiated products as Montenegro’s electricity market becomes more complex.
The procurement’s risk lies in integration and data migration. Utility billing systems contain large volumes of sensitive customer and historical consumption data. Weak testing, incomplete migration or poor coordination between EPCG, CEDIS, software contractors and financial systems could create invoice errors and operational disruption.
The project therefore requires more than software delivery. Data reconciliation, cybersecurity, user-acceptance testing, disaster recovery and parallel billing should be treated as core acceptance conditions. For EPCG’s lenders and auditors, the quality of the system will affect revenue assurance and the credibility of cash-flow reporting across both conventional supply operations and the emerging prosumer market.
