Report of Indian Institute of Public Administration ... - Ministry of Power

Andhra Pradesh
2004–05 are still high at 11.72 per cent and 9.48 per cent respectively. Overall,
there is a substantial reduction in the DTs failure rate as compared to the 28 per
cent in 1999–2000 (the first year of restructuring). There is scope for further
reduction and the trend indicates that the companies will bring in further
improvements in the coming years.
4.3.4 Metering
The percentages of metered connections are indicated below:
DISCOM Category
Metering in DISCOMs
Percentage of Services Metered
2001-02 2002-03 2003-04 2004-05
SPDCL Agricultural - - - 21.40
Domestic - 97.0 97.5 98.5
Industrial - 100 100 100
Others - 100 100 100
NPDCL Agricultural - - - 2
Domestic 70 80 90 100
Industrial 100 100 100 100
Others 100 100 100 100
CPDCL Agricultural - - - 2
Domestic - - - 100
Industrial - - - 100
Others - - - 100
EPDCL Agricultural 3.34 4.78 7.86 N.A.
Domestic 100 100 100 100
Industrial 100 100 100 100
Others 100 100 100 100
The improvements made in metering by the DISCOMs are as follows:
• All categories of services except agriculture are metered. The percentage of
metered services in all categories, other than agriculture, is almost 100 per
cent.
• Metering of agriculture services is 21 per cent in SPDCL, 8 per cent in
EPDCL and 2 per cent in the other two DISCOMs.
• The metered electricity consumption has increased from 38 per cent in
1999-2000 to 52.4 per cent by 2004-05.
• All industrial and high value services are provided with electronic meters.
• All 33 kV and 11 kV feeders in the system have been metered.
• Metering has been completed in respect of about 36,300 DTs.
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