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New Delhi Municipal Council | Budget 2019 – 20
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6.1.3.5.2 NDMC assigned the work of AMI & SCADA to M/s Energy
Efficiency Services Ltd. (EESL), a joint venture of PSU’s under Ministry of
Power, Government of India, on “OPEX” Model. The project includes
commissioning of Smart Meters with 3G, GPRS Module, and Communication
networks (Cellular) Services, HES, MDM and related software, Cloud Hosting
Services for HES and MDM, Integration of MDM with Legacy system of
NDMC, billing and Customer Resource Management System. The Business
model is based on Cost-plus model. EESL will invest all CAPEX & OPEX
upfront & thereafter, NDMC would pay EESL, monthly on per consumer
basis.

6.1.3.5.3 With this, NDMC become the first utility in the country to have
replaced all the meters with smart meter and implemented Automated
Metering Infrastructure (AMI). This will end the manual reading or reading
through reading instruments and all the meter data will be transferred
automatically to the data centre for billing. NDMC has rolled out this project
through Energy Efficiency Services Limited (EESL), a PSU under Ministry of
Power.

Smart meters offer the following benefits to electricity customers to:

(i) know the daily and hourly consumption pattern which helps in reduction
of loads / bills

(ii) add your multiple accounts into one mobile account for monitoring the
patterns
(iii) enable consumers to adjust their habits in order to lower the electricity
bills
(iv) receive notifications on any such event like power failures or voltage
fluctuations etc.
(v) enable consumer to see real time consumption, historical consumption
pattern etc.

6.1.3.5.4 SCADA project would accrue following benefits to NDMC & its
consumers:
(i) bring in operational efficiency on a model which is impact based,
aiding efforts towards achieving financial improvement of NDMC.

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