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The implementation of a project on introduction of the automated control and energy accounting system has been in progress in Uzbekistan.

The system is currently introduced in Bukhara, Jizzakh and Samarkand regions. Uzbekistan signed a contract for its establishment with the South Korean company KT Corporation as a result of international tendering.

According to the project manager Inh Ki Kim, it is very important in terms of development and promotion of technologies of intelligent electrical networks in Uzbekistan. That will provide an opportunity of introducing specific tariffs based on a day time. The multi-tariff accounting should enable Uzbekenergo to regulate the consumption of electricity during the day, while smoothing the load chart.

Works on the installation of server equipment and meters are currently underway in the pilot areas. Uzbekenergo is planning to install more than one million multipurpose meters at a voltage of 0.4 kV in household, commercial and industrial customers in three regions by the end of 2017.

According to experts, the metering should facilitate timely, accurate and transparent calculations, improve quality of customer service, ensure prompt response to failures and address many other issues.

In the next few years, Uzbekistan has scheduled to install 6 million up-to-date meters throughout the country, as well as create a unified billing system and a consumer data base through the loan funds of the Asian, World and the Islamic Development Banks. The total cost of the project exceeds $800 million.

Jahon Information Agency