{"id":598560,"date":"2023-08-19T10:25:53","date_gmt":"2023-08-19T04:55:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=598560"},"modified":"2023-08-19T12:35:34","modified_gmt":"2023-08-19T07:05:34","slug":"kerc-notifies-draft-rules-on-prepaid-smart-meters-in-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/kerc-notifies-draft-rules-on-prepaid-smart-meters-in-state\/","title":{"rendered":"KERC notifies draft rules on prepaid smart meters in state"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BENGALURU: The Karnataka Electricity Regulatory Commission (KERC) has notified draft rules for installing &#8216;prepaid smart meter&#8217; for all categories of consumers across the state which is expected to help citizens save big on paying annual security deposits (ASD) to Escoms and pre-empt attempts at tampering with power usage during the time of billing. <\/p>\n<p>In simple terms, these meters operate just the way prepaid currency plans for mobile phones do: These meters are linked to smartphones, and consumers get an alert when the monthly power quota is about to be exhausted and they can recharge for more power usage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BENGALURU: The Karnataka Electricity Regulatory Commission (KERC) has notified draft rules for installing &#8216;prepaid smart meter&#8217; for all categories of consumers across the state which is expected to help citizens save big on paying annual security deposits (ASD) to Escoms and pre-empt attempts at tampering with power usage during the time of billing. In simple terms, these meters operate just the way prepaid currency plans for mobile phones do: These meters are linked to smartphones, and consumers get an alert when the monthly power quota is about to be exhausted and they can recharge for more power usage.<\/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":[130,246,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-598560","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\/598560","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=598560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598560\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}