{"id":649631,"date":"2025-10-21T11:51:29","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T06:21:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=649631"},"modified":"2025-10-21T11:51:29","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T06:21:29","slug":"no-more-shock-from-inflated-power-bills-as-new-checks-initiated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/no-more-shock-from-inflated-power-bills-as-new-checks-initiated\/","title":{"rendered":"No more shock from inflated power bills as new checks initiated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chennai: You may no longer have to fear inflated electricity bills as the power discom has introduced a \u2018reading quality check&#8217; (RQC) mechanism that automatically flags abnormal power consumption readings before bills are generated. This is aimed at curbing faulty meter assessments by field staff.<\/p>\n<p>A circular issued to all superintendent engineers, following a TOI article that highlighted various discrepancies in the billing system, stated that various red-flag reports had developed in the low-tension billing software. This is to curtail discrepancies in the assessment of power consumption, including the RQC report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chennai: You may no longer have to fear inflated electricity bills as the power discom has introduced a \u2018reading quality check&#8217; (RQC) mechanism that automatically flags abnormal power consumption readings before bills are generated. This is aimed at curbing faulty meter assessments by field staff. A circular issued to all superintendent engineers, following a TOI article that highlighted various discrepancies in the billing system, stated that various red-flag reports had developed in the low-tension billing software. This is to curtail discrepancies in the assessment of power consumption, including the RQC report.<\/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-649631","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\/649631","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=649631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649631\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=649631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=649631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=649631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}