Complete installation of smart meters priority: JERC to Chandigarh
2 years ago

Complete installation of smart meters priority: JERC to Chandigarh

Hindustan Times  

While rejecting UT administration’s proposal to increase the power tariff by 10% for 2023-24, the Joint Electricity Regulatory Commission has also directed the electricity wing of UT engineering department to expedite the installation of smart electricity meters on priority. Under the Smart Grid project, approved by the National Smart Grid Mission, the UT administration had planned to install smart electricity meters across the city as part of power sector reforms. In the first phase of the Smart Grid project, in October 2018, the electricity department had allotted the work for installing smart meters in Sectors 29, 31, 47 and 48, and seven villages — Faidan, Ram Darbar, Hallomajra, Raipur Kalan, Behlana, Makhanmajra and Daria — and the Industrial Area, where 24,000 meters have already been installed. A senior officer of the UT electricity department said, “We are working on other possibilities to complete the installation of smart meters.

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