{"id":387205,"date":"2020-12-01T12:26:05","date_gmt":"2020-12-01T06:56:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=387205"},"modified":"2020-12-01T13:36:43","modified_gmt":"2020-12-01T08:06:43","slug":"nine-in-fray-for-eesl-smart-meter-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/nine-in-fray-for-eesl-smart-meter-order\/","title":{"rendered":"Nine in fray for EESL smart meter order"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Schneider Electric, Genus Power Infrastructures and HPL Electric and Power are among nine firms competing to supply 2.35 million smart electricity meters to Energy Efficiency Services Ltd (EESL), said two people aware of the development.<\/p>\n<p>EESL has called bids for this smart meters\u2019 contract following the cancellation of a previous order to Indonesia\u2019s PT Hexing because of concerns over its failure to meet the local manufacturing criteria. The other firms vying for the contract are Avon Meters, Linkwell Telesystems, Zen Meter and Allied Engineering Works.<\/p>\n<p>India is rolling out the world\u2019s largest electricity smart metering programme to reduce power theft and help the country\u2019s struggling distribution utilities become more efficient.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Schneider Electric, Genus Power Infrastructures and HPL Electric and Power are among nine firms competing to supply 2.35 million smart electricity meters to Energy Efficiency Services Ltd (EESL), said two people aware of the development. EESL has called bids for this smart meters\u2019 contract following the cancellation of a previous order to Indonesia\u2019s PT Hexing because of concerns over its failure to meet the local manufacturing criteria. The other firms vying for the contract are Avon Meters, Linkwell Telesystems, Zen Meter and Allied Engineering Works. India is rolling out the world\u2019s largest electricity smart metering programme to reduce power theft [&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":[141,130,236],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-387205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers","category-power-hindustantimes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387205","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=387205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}