Edineţ city hall equipped with smart electricity meter

Chisinau, June 15. /MOLDPRES/- A smart electricity meter was installed yesterday with the support of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) at Edineț city hall. It is the second such modern meter set, after the one put into operation on the eve in the government building.

In the next 12 months, meters will be installed in different categories of consumers, a representative sample at the level of the entire country. "Households will be selected according to the following criteria: geographic location, population/density, household size and level of energy vulnerability, socioeconomic status, infrastructure availability etc.," Cristina Pereteatcu, State Secretary of the Ministry of Energy said.

On June 13, 2023, with the UNDP support, the Ministry of Energy launched a pilot program to install smart meters for electricity, a program that is part of the energy sector digitalization plan.

Smart meters measure consumption at short intervals and send the data automatically, securely and accurately to the energy distributor, without the supply companies having to send their employees to physically read the meters. At the same time, the supplier will bill the actual energy consumption, not the estimated one, and will be able to quicker identify and intervene in case of accidents. 

In the European Union, over 50% of the meters are intelligent, which allowed to reduce by up to 15% the commercial consumption in the network and by 5% for technical losses.

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