{"id":566439,"date":"2026-09-10T01:18:19","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T20:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/?p=566439"},"modified":"2026-09-10T01:18:19","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T20:18:19","slug":"rs1-82-billion-allocated-for-smart-meter-installation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/rs1-82-billion-allocated-for-smart-meter-installation\/","title":{"rendered":"Rs1.82 billion allocated for smart meter installation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Pesahawar<br \/>\nThe Peshawar Electric Supply Company (PESCO) plans to install 65,000 Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) meters as part of its Electricity Distribution Efficiency Improvement Project (EDEIP).<br \/>\nAccording to documents available with Wealth Pakistan, the smart-meter installation forms part of PESCO\u2019s foreign-funded distribution upgrade project, which also includes major improvements to the company\u2019s distribution network in Peshawar and Khyber circles.<br \/>\nThe installation of the 5-20kW AMI meters has been allocated Rs1.82 billion under the revised PC-I, with the component carrying a dollar cost of $6.5 million.<br \/>\nAnother component involves installation of aerial bundled cable (ABC) on 60 feeders in the two circles, covering a total length of 1,298 kilometres. The revised cost of this component stands at Rs3.415 billion, including Rs683.043 million in local and Rs2.732 billion in foreign costs.<br \/>\nThe project also provides for technical assistance covering equipment for metering and testing, transformer workshops, testing and protection, personal protective equipment, IT and vehicles. This component has a revised allocation of Rs2.67 billion.<br \/>\nTraining and capacity building have been allocated Rs126 million, while another Rs560 million has been earmarked for project implementation support.<br \/>\nThe overall EDEIP carries a revised cost of Rs30.256 billion, equivalent to $108.056 million, comprising Rs8.988 billion in local costs and Rs21.268 billion in foreign costs.<br \/>\nThe project estimates also include financing costs, price and physical contingencies and project overheads for PESCO support.<br \/>\nThe 65,000 AMI meters, together with the ABC installation and technical-support components, constitute part of PESCO\u2019s broader electricity distribution efficiency improvement programme.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pesahawar The Peshawar Electric Supply Company (PESCO) plans to install 65,000 Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) meters as part of its Electricity Distribution Efficiency Improvement Project (EDEIP). According to documents available with Wealth Pakistan, the smart-meter installation forms part of PESCO\u2019s foreign-funded distribution upgrade project, which also includes major improvements to the company\u2019s distribution network in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-566439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-peshawar"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Rs1.82 billion allocated for smart meter installation<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/rs1-82-billion-allocated-for-smart-meter-installation\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Rs1.82 billion allocated for smart meter installation\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Pesahawar The Peshawar Electric Supply Company (PESCO) plans to install 65,000 Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) meters as part of its Electricity Distribution Efficiency Improvement Project (EDEIP). 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