Smart Meters

Implementing smart meters is one of the operational performance parameters under the Government of India’s Ujwal DISCOM Assurance Yojana (UDAY). The scheme would help in reducing AT&C losses. It will also help in monitoring round-the-clock power supply eventually leading to greater efficiency and a pathway to meeting the government’s vision of 24X7 Power for All.

Smart meters are part of the overall Advanced Metering Infrastructure solution (AMI) that measures and records consumers’ electricity usage at different times of the day and send this information to the energy supplier through over-the-air communication technology. This gives consumers better access to information and enables them to make more informed decisions on the use of electricity in their homes, leading to reduced power wastage, and providing long-term carbon and financial savings.

New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) completed the project of replacing 50,000 conventional electricity meters with smart meters and become the first distribution company (discom) in India to implement 100 per cent smart metering solution. The adoption of smart meters will enhance consumer convenience and rationalize electricity consumption. The project was jointly implemented by NDMC and Energy Efficiency Services (EESL).

Within a short duration, 50,000 smart meters have been installed and integrated with the NDMC IT legacy system. The adoption of smart meters will lead to total annual savings of Rs 1.24 billion to NDMC, which include revenue due to improvement in billing efficiency. The AT&C losses are estimated to be 12.63 per cent (Source: DERC Tariff Order FY2018-19). NDMC will benefit from enhanced consumer satisfaction level resulting from better complaint management, faster restoration of outages, awareness of optimized consumption pattern, and improvement in system stability, reliability and transparency.

The event also included the launch of smart meter feature on NDMC 311 mobile application enabling the consumers to access various services at the tap of a finger. The smart meter tab has been added to NDMC app’s home screen. Through this convenient and easy-to-use app, consumers can now get complete clarity on their energy habits and consumption through detailed and personalised insights. These meters will now make the billing process transparent and residents can pay their bill at any given time through NDMC's mobile application.

SMART FEATURES

  1. These meters will now make the billing process transparent.
  2. Residents can pay their bill at any given time through NDMC’s mobile application.
  3. Residents can check which socket has been consuming most energy and turn it off accordingly.
  4. Moreover, if they are going out of town, they can check if the meter has been showing fake consumption numbers
  5. With these meters, the residents can now trace their consumption pattern through-out the day and monitor unwanted power consumption.
  6. This gives consumers better access to information and enables them to make more informed decisions on the use of electricity in their homes, leading to reduced power wastage, and providing long-term carbon and financial savings.

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