Thursday, May 16, 2019

Smart Meters – 60% Fast, No Consumer Friendly Feature
May15, 2019 (C) Ravinder Singh ravindersinvent@gmail.com

Er. Anjli Chandra, PSERC, Chandigarh led Government side, BRPLled private power sector and I mainly represented All Consumer side at an event on Smart Metering. 

The event was about Installing 30 Cr Smart Energy Meters including BPL consumers who consume 1 or 2 units a day. Capital and O&M cost was not disclosed – Could be Rs.80,000 Cr to Rs.1,50,000 Cr plus Rs.50,000 Cr Annual O&M, SIM Cards & Data. 

Since 2003 – BRPL, BYPL & NDPL in Delhi had installed ‘Software Operated Smart Consumer Meters – almost 100% - Over 5 Million Today in Delhi’ but in Supreme Court and dealing with Regulators & Government claim them to be ‘Electronics Meters.’ All their Consumer Friendly features were DISABLED. For BRPL+ these were 100% SMART it can Download all the OPERATING DATA – for Consumers as Good as E-M Meter.

Since 1974 or last 45 years this WIPO awarded inventor wanted Indian companies to be World Leaders and has Offered Technologies to Birla, Tata and Ambani and all others but Industry preferred Financial Manipulation as means to earn profits than Customer Services, and Efficient Technologies.

RIL was told in 2011 ‘You Have So Much Money – Can Promote 100,000 Technologies and be World’s First $1000b Company’. RILengaged Mashelkar who filed BOGUS Patent and Fake Research – soon over 50,000 IDEAS or So Applied to PARTNER with RIL – after 2-3 years it all COLLAPSED.

Reliance Power Shares in last 5 yrs peaked at Rs.108.95 today trades at Rs.5.74, figures for Tata Power are Rs.111.20 & Rs.61.35 and Adani Power are Rs.55.55 and Rs.38.70.

Reliance Power IPO price was Rs.430 – currently trading at just over 1% of IPO Price.

1.     SMART METERING was introduced immediately after MANAGEMENT TAKEOVER by two old Mumbai Power Distribution companies – BSES and Tata Power in July2002 itself, when Electro-Mechanical Meters recording Low Consumption were‘TESTED By ACCUCHEK METER [5 Decimal Accuracy] ON SITE’ – in 5 minutes. Slow by even 1% were replaced immediately – 17% Fast were last to be replaced.

2.     SMART METERS were introduced since 2003 as 2nd or 3rd Meter, [Checked EM Meter, Electronic Meter and SMART METER] within Two years BRPL, BYPL and NDPL had introduced near 100% - but Large Percent 46% of Distribution Transformers had no Meter – Smart or Electronic even 5-6 years after July2002 Takeover. EVEN TODAY Smart Meters are MISSING in Distribution Transformers – BRPL+ get no Information about Distribution Transformers OVERLOADS & TRIPPING – many times for hours.

3.     When I led CAMPAIGN against FAST METERS for six months across Delhi – found None of the Consumer Friendly Feature was OPERATING – Decimal Points for Energy, Live Load in Watts, Max & Min VOLTAGE, Current & Power Factor, Frequency, Daily Energy Consumption, Power Cuts and Duration were not available. Live Load in Watts was introduced after years of Struggle.

4.     2003 – SPOT READING, BILLING & COLLECTION was introduced in Andhra Pradesh, reducing MANY ACTIVITIES & CUT COST and Avoided 4P Printing of Bills.

5.     In 2003 itself – Second Display of Smart Meters in Living Room of Consumers was available but not Offered to ALERT Consumers about CONNECTED LOAD.

6.     In 2005 I Petitioned BRPL+ to provide ‘Annual Analysis of Consumer Consumption’, units Billed, Payments Made or Pending, Peak Load, Minimum Load on Monthly basis, Power Cuts in Numbers and Total Duration.

Consumer MISTRUST or CHEATING – Poor Quality of Service

Reliance Power executive blame Consumers for Their MISTRUST of Smart Meters, which they had already INSTALLED as Electronic Meters – These Meters RUN Fast, 60% Fast.

Reliance Power executive further alleged that My Testing of Meters was for 100W Lamp – It was PHILIPS Lamp tested to be consuming 100W at 230V.

RWA were advised in 2005 to use LAMP TEST by Switching Of All Connected Load – engaging LINEMAN – Heavy Load required CONNECTING between Meter and MCB – Violated Supply Conditions -  BRPL could register THEFT CASE.

It was also ALLEGED that Consumers with Sanctioned Load of 1-2 KW Run Air-conditioners – actually BRPL Connected Load yesterday was 12,000+ MW, Peak Demand was 2321 MW and Minimum Load was 1345 MW.

Amazon Smart-TV installation team was ready before Delivery – but BRPL is Different.

When there is HT Cable Breakdown – Consumers of the HT Feeder suffer Frequent Breakdown of power. After some days CABLE FAULT Location is identified, Another Team comes next day for Digging, another day CABLE JOINTER Team comes to JOIN The Cable, another day a team comes to Restore the Dug Up area.  

When an OLD TRANFORMER develops some Problem – Consumers face frequent Disruptions – A STANDBY Transformer taken from JUNK YARD is Brought and Connected – Transformer in Use is Sent for REPAIR – another day Brought back and Re-Installed.

In Conclusion it was ADMITTED – BRPL+ failed to EDUCATE CONSUMERS ABOUT DEMAND SIDE MANAGEMENT POSSIBLE WITH SMART METERS SINCE 2003. Reason All initially and Many Consumer FRIENDLY were Disabled, in 2003 – Second Meter Display could have been provided in Living Rooms like Wall Clock – reminding consumers all the time about Connected Load.

Ø We could have TOLD Consumers to Avoid or Delay switching on Air Conditioners, Geysers, Booster Pumps, Washing Machines when FREQUENCY of power supply is 49.9 per second or less prefer when 50.1 or more, but feature was DISABLED.  
Ø We could have PARTNERED with 1% Largest Consumers who have GENERATORS for Load Management than affecting 100% Consumers.  

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