Solutions to Improve Billing Efficiencies of Indian Electric Utilities

What is the Problem?

Many electric utilities in India are facing low billing efficiencies due to a multitude of factors including electricity theft, inaccurate data collection methods and hardware and processing etc. Low billing efficiency is also due to inaccurate customer data and management systems. Low billing efficiency leads to higher aggregate technical and commercial losses for the utilities, ultimately leading to higher costs for consumers.

A list of solutions we would be looking for relating to the problem statement are listed in the solutions tab on the right.

• Consumer profiling – for better detection of theft; to provide value-added services
• Consumption data analytics – for energy benchmarking; optimization of resources (manpower, grid assets); to develop energy consumption trends and forecasting, etc
• Meter reading solutions – for accurate energy consumption data collection; for optimization of resources (manpower); to minimize consumer complaints
• Bill collection systems – for reliable, trusted payment systems suitable for different customer types
• etc.