{"id":299777,"date":"2019-11-07T10:25:44","date_gmt":"2019-11-07T04:55:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=299777"},"modified":"2019-11-07T10:52:42","modified_gmt":"2019-11-07T05:22:42","slug":"not-all-state-power-distribution-cos-see-financial-benefit-in-smart-meters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/not-all-state-power-distribution-cos-see-financial-benefit-in-smart-meters\/","title":{"rendered":"Not all state power distribution cos see financial benefit in smart meters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Union power ministry has an ambitious plan for 100 per cent smart metering over the next two years. However, not all state distribution companies (discoms) see a financial benefit from smart meters. <\/p>\n<p>Also, vendors are reluctant to supply to some states, on payment concerns. \u201cI don\u2019t see a benefit to make that huge an investment, when the returns are not impressive. It does not do much to change my financials significantly,\u201d said a top official from a state discom, who did not wish to be identified. <\/p>\n<p>A smart meter has a modem (communication device) and a remote switch by which demand, supply and billing can be monitored and controlled remotely. Data from these is collected in a cloud server. This reduces energy theft, improves billing and bill collection. It also helps discoms collect data on consumer demand patterns, useful for improved planning of supply.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Union power ministry has an ambitious plan for 100 per cent smart metering over the next two years. However, not all state distribution companies (discoms) see a financial benefit from smart meters. Also, vendors are reluctant to supply to some states, on payment concerns. \u201cI don\u2019t see a benefit to make that huge an investment, when the returns are not impressive. It does not do much to change my financials significantly,\u201d said a top official from a state discom, who did not wish to be identified. A smart meter has a modem (communication device) and a remote switch by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-299777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299777\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}