{"id":359238,"date":"2020-06-25T11:22:45","date_gmt":"2020-06-25T05:52:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=359238"},"modified":"2020-06-25T11:22:45","modified_gmt":"2020-06-25T05:52:45","slug":"indias-smart-meter-programme-to-shun-chinese-manufacturers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/indias-smart-meter-programme-to-shun-chinese-manufacturers\/","title":{"rendered":"India\u2019s smart meter programme to shun Chinese manufacturers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI : India plans to discourage the use of Chinese manufactured electricity smart meters, as the Union government is cautious about such imported equipment running the risk of being infected by a malware, said two people aware of the development.<\/p>\n<p>Consequently, the power ministry is not in favour of state-run Energy Efficiency Services Ltd (EESL), that has been designated to implement the world\u2019s largest smart metering programme to not use such equipment, given the risks involved.<\/p>\n<p>The move which is part of a broad economic response to Chinese aggression in the Ladakh area, assumes importance given that the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government plans to convert all electricity meters into smart prepaid meters by 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI : India plans to discourage the use of Chinese manufactured electricity smart meters, as the Union government is cautious about such imported equipment running the risk of being infected by a malware, said two people aware of the development. Consequently, the power ministry is not in favour of state-run Energy Efficiency Services Ltd (EESL), that has been designated to implement the world\u2019s largest smart metering programme to not use such equipment, given the risks involved. The move which is part of a broad economic response to Chinese aggression in the Ladakh area, assumes importance given that the National [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[139,130,237],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-359238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-mint","category-newspapers","category-power-live-mint"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359238","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}