{"id":593560,"date":"2023-07-26T10:28:18","date_gmt":"2023-07-26T04:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=593560"},"modified":"2023-07-26T12:04:02","modified_gmt":"2023-07-26T06:34:02","slug":"bescoms-smart-meter-project-faces-starting-trouble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/bescoms-smart-meter-project-faces-starting-trouble\/","title":{"rendered":"Bescom&#8217;s smart meter project faces starting trouble"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Though the Ministry of Power has set a 2025 deadline for Bescom to convert all power meters to smart meters, there has been hardly any work on the ground. Bescom has converted close to 14 lakh electromechanical meters to digital electrostatic meters instead. <\/p>\n<p>While Bescom officials acknowledge that smart meters are the future, the intermediate step to install digital meters has raised eyebrows as the newly replaced meters may have to be phased out to make way for smart meters. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cBescom needs to work with a vision. When the ministry has set a deadline, is it not a waste of funds to replace the meters at this juncture of time?\u201d questioned M G Prabhakar,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Though the Ministry of Power has set a 2025 deadline for Bescom to convert all power meters to smart meters, there has been hardly any work on the ground. Bescom has converted close to 14 lakh electromechanical meters to digital electrostatic meters instead. While Bescom officials acknowledge that smart meters are the future, the intermediate step to install digital meters has raised eyebrows as the newly replaced meters may have to be phased out to make way for smart meters. \u201cBescom needs to work with a vision. When the ministry has set a deadline, is it not a waste of [&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":[146,130,234],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-593560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-deccan-herald-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593560","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=593560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593560\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=593560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=593560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=593560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}