Adani Group Secures 10.80 Lakh Smart Meters for BEST Power Consumers in Mumbai

Recently, Adani Transmission, part of the Adani group won the bid to install 10.80 lakh “Smart Meters” for Bombay Electric Supply & Transport (BEST) customers, which will “empower” the distributor to automatically turn off the power supply of bill defaulters.

The installation of smart meters will be finished in two and a half years, according to Kandarp Patel, distribution CEO of the company. The BEST has awarded the Rs 1,250 crore project to the advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) partner of Adani Transmission Ltd (ATL).

The ATL shall also maintain them for the BEST for seven and a half years on a design-build-finance-own-operate-transfer basis in addition to deploying the smart meters for all users along with the associated communication and cloud infrastructure, he continued.

This initiative, which is being hailed as the largest of its kind in the nation, will cover end-to-end smart metering for BEST’s distribution network and final users, with full energy accounting and no manual intervention.

In addition to choices like pre-paid billing, net-metering facilities for housing complexes and commercial buildings with roof-top solar energy plants, etc., it will enable BEST power consumers—all located in south Mumbai—to monitor online consumption patterns and take prompt corrective action, as needed.

BEST will simultaneously be able to do “remote connection and disconnection” for bill defaulters, and power regulators might provide customers with “pleasant time of day prices” and boost overall distribution efficiency, according to officials.

According to Kandarp Patel, the project is in keeping with the organization’s long-term objectives, which include distributing power to everyone by 2022 and “delivering consumer value through the potential of technology and digitalization.”

Recently, Adani Green Energy acquired three entities from Inox Green Energy Services Limited (IGESL), a subsidiary of INOX Wind which is a wind power operation and maintenance (O&M) service, provider. Each of the three entities holded 50 MW operational wind power projects at Dayapar, Gujarat.