Lucknow Greater than 1200 smart meters have been damaged in the town due to lightning throughout the heavy rainfall on September 11. Consequently, the shoppers of Lucknow Electrical energy Provide Administration (LESA) are upset due to outage owing to defective meters. Most complaints of smart meter malfunction had been registered in Utrethia subdivision. Nonetheless, the variety of defective smart meters in the capital is alleged to be greater than 3,000. The Uttar Pradesh Energy Company has referred to as for studies from the whole state on smart meters getting damaged due to lightning.
Chairman, Uttar Pradesh Rajya Vidyut Upbhokta Parishad Avdhesh Kumar Varma mentioned, “Questions are being raised on the standard of the smart meters as they had been damaged due to lightning. The engineers of UP Energy Company didn’t correctly test the standard of smart meters earlier than buying them. All of the damaged smart meters had been substandard and officers by no means bothered to conduct the ‘sparc check’ which is necessary for testing the standard of smart meters. An in-depth inquiry should be ordered by the UPPCL bosses, to know the precise motive behind the meters getting damaged.”
He mentioned, “I’m amassing the figures of damaged smart meters as most complaints have come from Utrethia, Chinhat, Gomtinagar Extension, Gomtinagar, Jankipuram, Kursi RoadThakurganj, Saadatganj, Rajajipuram, Indira Nagar, Mahanagar, South Metropolis, Kanpur Street, Ashiana and Chowk areas.”
A senior LESA official mentioned that a lot of the smart meters had been put in on the outer partitions of homes. So, in the event that they had been of poor high quality, they may get damaged. There was a chance of injury to the sensor of the smart meter. This might additionally have an effect on the {hardware} and the SIM playing cards would cease working.
Chairman of UP Energy Company, Dr. Ashish Goyal referred to as a video convention and mentioned the difficulty with the MDs of energy distribution firms. He has referred to as for the record of smart meters that had been damaged inside 24 hours of lightning.
The corporate is altering the defective meters with out cost.
MD Madhyanchal Bhavani Singh Khangarot mentioned, “EESL has began the work of changing smart meters damaged due to lightning. No charge is being collected from shoppers for this.”
GM LESA cis-Gomti Sanjay Jain mentioned, “One can not attain a conclusion concerning the causes behind the meters getting damaged. Until they’re examined, we can not inform the precise causes behind the meters getting damaged.”