REC, Jammu Power Distribution Corporation partner with J-PAL South Asia

23 Apr 2022 Evaluate

REC and Jammu Power Distribution Corporation (JPDCL) have partnered with the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) South Asia to test the impact of smart meters on improving consumer payments and electricity delivery in Jammu.

REC, JPDCL and J-PAL South Asia will collaborate to leverage existing administrative data for exploring ways to reduce electricity theft and faulty billing. The insights gleaned from this analysis will inform the randomised evaluations led by professors’ who are a part of J-PAL’s global network to evaluate the impact of smart meters on improving billing accuracy and on other features such as remote disconnections, prepaid metering, and online billing.

People living in low-to-middle income countries often receive erratic power supply and suffer from electricity theft and non-payment. Smart meters, which measure electricity consumption in real time and feed the data into a central system, are considered to be a potential solution to alleviate these problems.

This partnership builds on a data-sharing agreement signed between J-PAL South Asia and REC in September 2021 to create an annual, data-based assessment of 79 public and private power distribution companies (DISCOMS) across the country for improving electricity access.

REC is engaged in providing financial assistance to state electricity boards, state government departments and rural electric cooperatives for rural electrification projects as are sponsored by them.

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