Smart Meters and Energy efficiency Services Limited

Subject: Schemes and Government organisation

Context:

Energy Efficiency Services Limited sets stricter protocols to prevent incidents in future where smart meter shutdowns happened due to sabotage

Concept:

• India is on a path of transforming its energy mix with innovation. Along with enhancing energy production, the nation also needs to cut Aggregate Technical and Commercial (AT&C) losses to below 12 percent by 2022, and below 10 percent by 2027.
• Enabling India to achieve this imperative is the smart grid, the first step of which is the creation of Advanced Metering Infrastructure.
• A new range of ‘smart meters’ can bring efficiency to how India manages its electricity, by checking data-entry errors and billing efficiencies and cutting the costs of manual meter reading through web-based monitoring system.
• With its pioneering role in India’s energy efficiency journey, EESL’s Smart Meter National Programme (SMNP) is working to eventually replace 25 crore conventional meters with smart meters across India.

About EESL

• Energy Efficiency Services Limited (EESL), under the administration of Ministry of Power, Government of India, is working towards mainstreaming energy efficiency and is implementing the world’s largest energy efficiency portfolio in the country.
• Driven by the mission of Enabling More – more transparency, more transformation, and more innovation, EESL aims to create market access for efficient and future-ready transformative solutions that create a win-win situation for every stakeholder.