{"id":563947,"date":"2023-03-21T09:50:11","date_gmt":"2023-03-21T04:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=563947"},"modified":"2023-03-21T10:09:46","modified_gmt":"2023-03-21T04:39:46","slug":"smart-prepaid-meters-to-reduce-power-bills-by-up-to-2-5-power-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/smart-prepaid-meters-to-reduce-power-bills-by-up-to-2-5-power-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Smart prepaid meters to reduce power bills by up to 2.5%: Power Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Union Power Minister R K Singh on Monday urged electricity consumers to use smart prepaid meters, saying the device helps users bring down power cost by up to 2 per cent.<\/p>\n<p>Installation of smart prepaid meters reduces the operational and finance cost for electricity suppliers as consumers credit their account in advance, the minister said while releasing the &#8216;Enabling a consumer-centric Smart Metering Transition in India&#8217; report here.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you have a smart prepaid meter, your cost of electricity will come down by 2-2.5 per cent and the consumer gains (at benefit),&#8221; Singh said.<\/p>\n<p>Usage of smart meters will lead to digitisation of systems, automation and further efficiencies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Union Power Minister R K Singh on Monday urged electricity consumers to use smart prepaid meters, saying the device helps users bring down power cost by up to 2 per cent. Installation of smart prepaid meters reduces the operational and finance cost for electricity suppliers as consumers credit their account in advance, the minister said while releasing the &#8216;Enabling a consumer-centric Smart Metering Transition in India&#8217; report here. &#8220;If you have a smart prepaid meter, your cost of electricity will come down by 2-2.5 per cent and the consumer gains (at benefit),&#8221; Singh said. Usage of smart meters will lead [&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-563947","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\/563947","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=563947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563947\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=563947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=563947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=563947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}