{"id":564111,"date":"2023-03-21T11:27:02","date_gmt":"2023-03-21T05:57:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=564111"},"modified":"2023-03-21T11:27:02","modified_gmt":"2023-03-21T05:57:02","slug":"prepaid-meters-to-cut-cost-of-power-says-power-minister-rk-singh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/prepaid-meters-to-cut-cost-of-power-says-power-minister-rk-singh\/","title":{"rendered":"Prepaid meters to cut cost of power, says power minister RK Singh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Prepaid smart meters help reduce the cost of power by up to 2.5% as the devices lead to reduction in operational and finance costs for distribution companies (discoms) as a result of consumers paying in advance, power minister R K Singh said on Monday.<\/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\u2026 Energy accounting system&#8230;is another challenge which we are still tackling,&#8221; Singh said while releasing a survey conducted by public policy think-tank CEEW (Council on Energy, Environment and Water) with support from MacArthur Foundation and Bloomberg Philanthropies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Prepaid smart meters help reduce the cost of power by up to 2.5% as the devices lead to reduction in operational and finance costs for distribution companies (discoms) as a result of consumers paying in advance, power minister R K Singh said on Monday. &#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\u2026 Energy accounting system&#8230;is another challenge which we are still tackling,&#8221; Singh said while releasing a survey conducted by public policy think-tank CEEW (Council on Energy, Environment and Water) with support from MacArthur [&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":[130,246,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-564111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564111","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=564111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=564111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=564111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=564111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}