Henan will replace all smart meters in 2014

According to reports, this year, Henan Province plans to replace 3.3 million meters. Henan Province will renovate smart meters for new residential and old residential areas for urban and rural residents. As of now, the city's smart meter city penetration rate is 60% and rural areas only 10%.

March 21, Henan Electric Power Company was informed that this year, Henan Province will renovate smart meters for new residential and old residential areas for urban and rural residents. The relevant personage thinks that the time-of-use price that concerns the vital interests of the residents will be implemented.

As early as 2002, Shanghai, Jiangsu, and Zhejiang were the first countries to implement the time-of-use price, that is, local power supply bureaus offered 50% discounted electricity prices from 23:00 to 7:00 each morning to industrial and commercial users and ordinary residents.

Can the implementation of time-sharing electricity prices bring about much benefit to residents? Someone counted an account: If you press an air conditioner once a night, the electricity used in summer is roughly 100 degrees. If residents use electricity to implement “time-of-use price”, a 50% discount on electricity prices at night would save nearly 30 yuan in electricity. This does not include the case of entering the second or third gear of the ladder price.

The relevant person of the Henan Electric Power Company did not explicitly address the issue of time-of-use price when it released the “replacement of smart meters” information, but said that the move was intended to “guide users to use their own customized power-use plans for peak and valley price differences. To use the same electricity, spend the least money." According to reports, this year, Henan Province plans to replace 3.3 million meters. As of now, the city's smart meter city penetration rate is 60% and rural areas only 10%.

Although the Henan Provincial Electric Power Department did not expressly stated that the replacement of smart meters is a preparation for time-sharing by electricity, it may be seen from the relevant national documents.

At the end of 2013, the National Development and Reform Commission issued the "Circular on Perfecting the Residents' Ladder Electricity Price System," and called for increasing the "one-on-one" transformation of residents' electricity use. Under the premise of keeping the general level of residential electricity prices basically stable, the full implementation will be implemented. Residents use peaks and valleys electricity prices. The regions that have not yet introduced the peak-valley electricity prices for residents will be introduced before the end of 2015 and will be implemented by residents.

Industry analysts believe that from the perspective of current progress in the replacement of smart meters in Henan Province, before the end of 2014, urban resident users will basically achieve full coverage of smart meters, while full coverage in rural areas will not take place until next year. Therefore, the time-consuming billing of residents' electricity may be implemented in 2015.