Smart metering is crucial to India’s energy policy as it helps real time monitoring of energy consumption, help discoms in load curtailment and improving the billing cycle, help customer to plan the consumption smartly and efficiently, and enables the grid-integration of renewables.
The estimated potential of the Indian market is at 300 million smart meters. Apart from this project, EDF has a plenty of other opportunities to explore in India. Currently, we are bidding for many smart meter projects across India and want to carve our niche in the country. We are also planning to participate in various upcoming smart metering business tenders.
In an exclusive interaction with T&D India