{"id":351005,"date":"2020-05-13T10:55:05","date_gmt":"2020-05-13T05:25:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=351005"},"modified":"2020-05-13T10:55:05","modified_gmt":"2020-05-13T05:25:05","slug":"discoms-generate-95pc-billing-efficiency-due-to-smart-meters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/discoms-generate-95pc-billing-efficiency-due-to-smart-meters\/","title":{"rendered":"Discoms generate 95pc billing efficiency due to smart meters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: State-owned EESL on Tuesday said that its smart metering programme (SMP) is helping distribution companies (discom) generate 95 per cent of billing efficiency during the lockdown.<\/p>\n<p>The discoms using smart meters have seen 15-20 per cent average increase in monthly revenue per consumer, the Energy Efficiency Services Ltd (EESL) said in a statement. The power ministry PSU is the designated agency to implement the SMP in India.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Under this programme, a total number of 12,06,435 smart meters have been installed till date, to enhance consumer convenience and rationalise electricity consumption,&#8221; the EESL said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: State-owned EESL on Tuesday said that its smart metering programme (SMP) is helping distribution companies (discom) generate 95 per cent of billing efficiency during the lockdown. The discoms using smart meters have seen 15-20 per cent average increase in monthly revenue per consumer, the Energy Efficiency Services Ltd (EESL) said in a statement. The power ministry PSU is the designated agency to implement the SMP in India. &#8220;Under this programme, a total number of 12,06,435 smart meters have been installed till date, to enhance consumer convenience and rationalise electricity consumption,&#8221; the EESL said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,239,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-351005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351005","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\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351005\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}