{"id":94087,"date":"2025-12-15T16:09:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T11:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=94087"},"modified":"2025-12-15T16:09:00","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T11:09:00","slug":"smart-electricity-meter-prices-cut-by-40-owais-laghari","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/business\/smart-electricity-meter-prices-cut-by-40-owais-laghari\/","title":{"rendered":"Smart electricity meter prices cut by 40%: Owais Laghari"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: The Power Division\u2019s sustained efforts to strengthen competition have resulted in a 40 percent reduction in the prices of smart electricity meters, a move expected to generate Rs150 billion in savings at the national level.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"424\" data-end=\"835\">According to Power Minister Owais Laghari, the price of three-phase smart meters has been reduced from Rs45,000 to Rs25,000, while the cost of single-phase meters has dropped by Rs7,000.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"424\" data-end=\"835\">The reduction follows positive regulatory changes introduced by the government through the Pakistan Engineering Council, which helped remove procedural hurdles and encouraged greater participation by international companies.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"837\" data-end=\"1171\">Power Minister Owais Laghari said that lower meter prices will directly benefit electricity consumers, as they will now pay less in the form of demand notices.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"837\" data-end=\"1171\">He added that smart meters will help immediately detect incorrect meter readings and electricity theft, improving transparency and efficiency in the power sector.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1173\" data-end=\"1535\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">He further stated that smart meters will offer advanced payment options, live monitoring facilities, and real-time access to electricity consumption data.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1173\" data-end=\"1535\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">Additional benefits include faster power restoration without line mains and improved system management, making smart meters a key step toward a more reliable and consumer-friendly electricity network.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: The Power Division\u2019s sustained efforts to strengthen competition have resulted in a 40 percent reduction in the prices of smart electricity meters, a move expected to generate Rs150 billion in savings at the national level. According to Power Minister Owais Laghari, the price of three-phase smart meters has been reduced from Rs45,000 to Rs25,000, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":76838,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[33009],"class_list":["post-94087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-smart-electricity-meter-prices"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94087"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94090,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94087\/revisions\/94090"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}