{"id":627648,"date":"2024-01-11T10:24:58","date_gmt":"2024-01-11T04:54:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=627648"},"modified":"2024-01-11T11:14:06","modified_gmt":"2024-01-11T05:44:06","slug":"smart-metering-installations-to-surge-over-next-two-years-supported-by-progress-in-tendering-says-icra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/smart-metering-installations-to-surge-over-next-two-years-supported-by-progress-in-tendering-says-icra\/","title":{"rendered":"Smart metering installations to surge over next two years, supported by progress in tendering, says ICRA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The awarding of smart meters by the state distribution utilities (discoms) is expected to increase to 222 million over the near to medium term from ~99 million so far, said a report by ICRA. The replacement of conventional meters with smart meters is a key initiative of the Revamped Distribution Sector Scheme (RDSS) launched by the Government of India (GoI) in July 2021 with the objective of bringing down AT&amp;C (aggregate technical &amp; commercial) losses and reducing the gap between the cost of supply and tariff to zero for the state distribution utilities (discoms).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The awarding of smart meters by the state distribution utilities (discoms) is expected to increase to 222 million over the near to medium term from ~99 million so far, said a report by ICRA. The replacement of conventional meters with smart meters is a key initiative of the Revamped Distribution Sector Scheme (RDSS) launched by the Government of India (GoI) in July 2021 with the objective of bringing down AT&amp;C (aggregate technical &amp; commercial) losses and reducing the gap between the cost of supply and tariff to zero for the state distribution utilities (discoms).<\/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":[130,240,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-627648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-financial-express","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627648","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=627648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627648\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=627648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=627648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=627648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}