Guwahati: Assam, amongst six states surveyed, has the very best share of shoppers who’re happy with sensible electrical energy or pay as you go meters and really feel that these have enabled better management over electrical energy bills.
This got here to mild on the ‘national dialogue on smart-metered India for a digitalised and people-centric power sector’ organised in New Delhi by the Council on Energy, Environment and Water (CEEW). The occasion was attended by Union energy minister RK Singh, who launched CEEW’s research ‘Enabling a consumer-centric smart metering transition in India’, which ranked Assam as the most effective performing state in delivering buyer satisfaction, hassle-free set up of sensible meters and accessing detailed break-up of payments.
The CEEW research is predicated on a survey of two,700 city households protecting 1,200 pay as you go and 1,500 post-paid shoppers throughout six states — Assam, Bihar, Haryana, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh, 18 districts and 10 public discoms. These six states account for 80% of all sensible meters put in in India.
The sensible meter venture began with a necessity – automating the studying of meters and sending electrical energy payments to 2.90 crore homes on time.
The survey, nevertheless, discovered that mere 13% of post-paid electrical energy shoppers in India and solely six per cent in Assam need to shift to the pay as you go mode even because the Centre has envisioned making the whole billing system pay as you go within the nation by 2025-26.
As on March 13, the Assam Power Distribution Company Limited (APDCL) has put in 5.36 lakh sensible meters, which is the fifth highest within the nation, as per info out there within the National Smart Grid Mission dashboard.
“Assam has the highest satisfaction rate among the six states with 93% of the smart-metered consumers satisfied with the technology,” it stated.
About 81% of the sampled shoppers had been in a position to entry detailed payments (digital + paper). Out of those, 78% of shoppers had been accessing detailed payments by means of digital means. Assam has the very best share of shoppers accessing detailed payments by means of digital means.
In Assam, about 68% of the shoppers really feel that sensible meters allow higher management on electrical energy bills, whereas 66% of shoppers report that electrical energy provide high quality has improved since making the transition to sensible meters.
However, attributable to gaps in digital literacy and restricted consciousness about sensible meter apps, many shoppers rely solely on SMS updates, which don’t present a break-up of payments.
This got here to mild on the ‘national dialogue on smart-metered India for a digitalised and people-centric power sector’ organised in New Delhi by the Council on Energy, Environment and Water (CEEW). The occasion was attended by Union energy minister RK Singh, who launched CEEW’s research ‘Enabling a consumer-centric smart metering transition in India’, which ranked Assam as the most effective performing state in delivering buyer satisfaction, hassle-free set up of sensible meters and accessing detailed break-up of payments.
The CEEW research is predicated on a survey of two,700 city households protecting 1,200 pay as you go and 1,500 post-paid shoppers throughout six states — Assam, Bihar, Haryana, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh, 18 districts and 10 public discoms. These six states account for 80% of all sensible meters put in in India.
The sensible meter venture began with a necessity – automating the studying of meters and sending electrical energy payments to 2.90 crore homes on time.
The survey, nevertheless, discovered that mere 13% of post-paid electrical energy shoppers in India and solely six per cent in Assam need to shift to the pay as you go mode even because the Centre has envisioned making the whole billing system pay as you go within the nation by 2025-26.
As on March 13, the Assam Power Distribution Company Limited (APDCL) has put in 5.36 lakh sensible meters, which is the fifth highest within the nation, as per info out there within the National Smart Grid Mission dashboard.
“Assam has the highest satisfaction rate among the six states with 93% of the smart-metered consumers satisfied with the technology,” it stated.
About 81% of the sampled shoppers had been in a position to entry detailed payments (digital + paper). Out of those, 78% of shoppers had been accessing detailed payments by means of digital means. Assam has the very best share of shoppers accessing detailed payments by means of digital means.
In Assam, about 68% of the shoppers really feel that sensible meters allow higher management on electrical energy bills, whereas 66% of shoppers report that electrical energy provide high quality has improved since making the transition to sensible meters.
However, attributable to gaps in digital literacy and restricted consciousness about sensible meter apps, many shoppers rely solely on SMS updates, which don’t present a break-up of payments.
