{"id":567873,"date":"2023-04-03T12:26:14","date_gmt":"2023-04-03T06:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=567873"},"modified":"2023-04-03T12:26:14","modified_gmt":"2023-04-03T06:56:14","slug":"complete-installation-of-smart-meters-priority-jerc-to-chandigarh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/complete-installation-of-smart-meters-priority-jerc-to-chandigarh\/","title":{"rendered":"Complete installation of smart meters priority: JERC to Chandigarh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While rejecting UT administration\u2019s proposal to increase the power tariff by 10% for 2023-24, the Joint Electricity Regulatory Commission (JERC) has also directed the electricity wing of UT engineering department to expedite the installation of smart electricity meters on priority.<\/p>\n<p>Under the Smart Grid project, approved by the National Smart Grid Mission (NSGM), the UT administration had planned to install smart electricity meters across the city as part of power sector reforms. Since 2018, UT has already installed 24,000 smart power meters at a cost of \u20b928 crore.<\/p>\n<p>However, in November 2022, the Union ministry of home affairs (MHA) had dropped the project for the rest of the city in the wake of the UT power department\u2019s privatisation, which is in advanced stages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While rejecting UT administration\u2019s proposal to increase the power tariff by 10% for 2023-24, the Joint Electricity Regulatory Commission (JERC) has also directed the electricity wing of UT engineering department to expedite the installation of smart electricity meters on priority. Under the Smart Grid project, approved by the National Smart Grid Mission (NSGM), the UT administration had planned to install smart electricity meters across the city as part of power sector reforms. Since 2018, UT has already installed 24,000 smart power meters at a cost of \u20b928 crore. However, in November 2022, the Union ministry of home affairs (MHA) had [&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-567873","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\/567873","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=567873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567873\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=567873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=567873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=567873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}