Over 5 lakh smart meters installed in a year, mostly in Uttar Pradesh
Energy Efficiency Services (EESL), a joint venture of four public sector enterprises under the Union ministry of power, on Tuesday announced installation of over 5 lakh smart meters in the country, since the rollout of a pan-India programme a year ago.
Among the states, Uttar Pradesh topped with over 4 lakh smart-meter installations in its 13 cities — Lucknow, Kanpur, Varanasi, Allahabad, Gorakhpur, Meerut, Moradabad, Aligarh, Saharanpur, Jhansi, Mathura, Bareilly and Faizabad. Smart meters have also been installed in Delhi, Bihar and Andhra Pradesh, under the Centre’s Smart Meter National Programme (SMNP).
Uttar Pradesh Power Corporation (UPPCL) in association with EESL had last year in April signed an MoU to replace 40 lakh conventional electricity meters with smart ones within 3 years with the twin objectives to enable customers to check and optimise their consumption pattern in real time with minimal manual intervention and helping discoms control power theft, improve billing efficiency and reduction in AT&C losses.
