{"id":430321,"date":"2021-08-12T11:34:16","date_gmt":"2021-08-12T06:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=430321"},"modified":"2021-08-12T11:34:16","modified_gmt":"2021-08-12T06:04:16","slug":"smart-meter-operators-may-get-first-claim-on-consumer-power-bills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/smart-meter-operators-may-get-first-claim-on-consumer-power-bills\/","title":{"rendered":"Smart meter operators may get first claim on consumer power bills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The government may allow prepaid electricity meter suppliers the first claim on consumer power bills in a bid to avoid payment delays and attract investment in the space, a senior official said.<\/p>\n<p>The Union power ministry is soon expected to issue standard bid documents (SBDs) for smart meter tenders by states willing to avail incentive under the \u20b93.03 lakh-crore revamped power distribution scheme.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government may allow prepaid electricity meter suppliers the first claim on consumer power bills in a bid to avoid payment delays and attract investment in the space, a senior official said. The Union power ministry is soon expected to issue standard bid documents (SBDs) for smart meter tenders by states willing to avail incentive under the \u20b93.03 lakh-crore revamped power distribution scheme.<\/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-430321","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\/430321","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=430321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430321\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}