Electricity department will install smart meters in homes to prevent power theft

Jyoti — Tue, 15 Oct 2024 08:04:21 +0000

The Electricity Corporation is making preparations to stop electricity theft and reduce electricity consumption and to relieve consumers from the problem of electricity bills.

For this, smart meters will be installed, which will also help in detecting electricity theft. Initially, smart meters will be installed on the feeders of power substations, after which smart meters will be installed on transformers.

Later, after government offices and residences, there is a plan to install smart meters at consumers’ homes. In Ghaziabad district, 41 power substations are operated for about four lakh 25 thousand consumers. There are 231 feeders including incoming and outgoing. The work of installing smart meters on the feeders of the power substation has been started by the Electricity Corporation.

There are more than 30 thousand consumers with commercial connections

Ghaziabad Zone 1 has more than two lakh domestic consumers, out of which more than 8500 are prepaid consumers. Zone 1 has more than 30 thousand consumers with commercial electricity connections, out of which more than 1200 are prepaid consumers. At the same time, there are more than two and a half thousand connections of small and micro industries and 439 connections of big industries.

Instructions to expedite the installation of smart meters

There are 40 power substations. To prevent power theft, the power corporation has initially started the work of installing smart meters on the feeders of the substations, and instructions have been given to speed up the work.

Chief Engineer Ghaziabad Zone Ashok Sundaram said that for this, a meeting was held with the concerned company officials to expedite the installation of smart meters, in which necessary guidelines were given.

Initially, smart meters will be installed on feeders. After this, smart meters will be installed on transformers and government offices and residences. So that the message reaches the consumers. After this, there are preparations to install smart meters at the homes of consumers.

Zone wise electricity consumers in Ghaziabad

Zone 1 (Ghaziabad city) around 2.35 lakh
Zone 2 (Loni, Modinagar and Modinagar) around 4.15 lakh
Zone 3 (Trans Hindon) around 4.15 lakh

Meter reader’s job will end

After the completion of the work of all three phases, the work of electricity bill meter reader going from house to house will end. Wrong billing will also be eliminated. If the meter is bypassed, the electricity will be cut off. There will also be a possibility of the chip in the meter getting blocked. In such a situation, theft will stop and there will be no possibility of wrong bill and fraud.

Will be completed by the year 2026

The Electricity Corporation has divided the district into three zones for the installation of smart meters. There are about 10.65 lakh electricity consumers in all three zones. Officials claim that the work of installing smart meters will be done rapidly, which will be completed by the year 2026 and smart meters will be installed in all houses.

prevent power theft - Rightsofemployees.com