EESL lines up Rs 2,700 cr investments for smart meter project in UP

The project will help UP discoms make estimated savings of Rs 8,000 cr

Energy Efficiency Services Limited (EESL), a joint venture of four public sector enterprises under the union ministry of power, has lined up investments worth Rs 2,700 crore for the smart meter project in Uttar Pradesh.

Under the ambitious project, EESL will install four million electricity meters in the premises of state power consumers in three years, EESL general manager Rajiv Kumar said in Lucknow on today.

He said so far 400,000 smart meters had already been installed in 13 cities, including Lucknow, Kanpur, Varanasi, Prayagraj (Allahabad) and Gorakhpur. “We plan to install the remaining smart meters in UP by March 2021.”

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