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The Kerala State Electricity Regulatory Commission has asked the Kerala State Electricity Board (KSEB) to record a abstracted petition earlier it for the support of the superior concern program and elaborate task study for Phase II of the astute metering task successful the State.
The directive came successful a caller bid the committee issued connected the billing procedure, metre rent and methodology for levying the information deposit for the astute prepaid meters of authorities consumers.
As per the February 6 bid issued by the KSEB, Phase II volition screen 35 lakh consumers (which could spell up to 50 lakh, considering the additions of caller consumers) astatine an estimated outgo of ₹3,260 crore. This signifier volition screen each consumers with depletion supra 150 units a period but agriculture consumers, each prosumers and nationalist electrical conveyance charging stations, each offices of the KSEB, consumers who opt for astute meters, monthly-billed consumers and each caller consumers, but BPL and agriculture consumers.
Under the RDSS scheme, Kerala was fixed support for installing 1.33 crore astute meters crossed aggregate phases. This signifier covers strategy meters of the KSEB and the authorities consumers and high-tension consumers. In the archetypal phase, 3 lakh prepaid meters are being installed. On March 2, the KSEB announced that authorities offices were acceptable to migrate to prepaid astute metering, which forms Phase I of the programme.
Around 1.3 lakh consumers, including offices nether the State authorities departments and nationalist assemblage units, volition determination to pre-paid billing successful this phase.
