{"id":90701,"date":"2020-10-29T13:24:08","date_gmt":"2020-10-29T07:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=18227"},"modified":"2021-05-19T18:01:16","modified_gmt":"2021-05-19T12:31:16","slug":"electricity-access-utility-benchmarking-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/electricity-access-utility-benchmarking-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Electricity Access &#038; Utility Benchmarking Report"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p><strong>News: <\/strong>NITI Aayog, Ministry of Power, Rockefeller Foundation, and Smart Power India has launched the \u2018Electricity Access in India and Benchmarking Distribution Utilities\u2019 report.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\r\n<li><strong>About the report: <\/strong>The report is based on a survey conducted across 10 states.<\/li>\r\n<li><strong>Objective:<\/strong> The report captures insights from both demand (electricity customers) as well as supply side (electricity distribution utilities).It seeks to:\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Evaluate the status of electricity access in India across these states and distribution utilities along all dimensions that constitute meaningful access<\/li>\r\n<li>Benchmark utilities\u2019 capacity to provide electricity access and identify the drivers of sustainable access<\/li>\r\n<li>Develop recommendations for enhancing sustainable electricity access.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><strong>Key Takeaways:<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\r\n<li><strong>Availability of Electricity: <\/strong>92% of customers reported the overall availability of electricity infrastructure within 50 metres of their premises.<\/li>\r\n<li><strong>Grid Based Electricity: <\/strong>87% of the surveyed customers have access to grid-based electricity. The remaining 13% either use non-grid sources or don\u2019t use any electricity at all.<\/li>\r\n<li><strong>Hours of Electricity: <\/strong>The hours of supply have improved significantly across the customer categories to nearly 17 hours per day.<\/li>\r\n<li><strong>Metered Connection: <\/strong>Nearly 85% of customers reported to have a metered electricity connection.<\/li>\r\n<li><strong>Access: <\/strong>The Access to electricity is observed in 83% of household customers.<\/li>\r\n<li><strong>Satisfaction Index: <\/strong>A satisfaction index was created to assess the overall satisfaction level of customers with utility services.The study suggested that a total of 66% of those surveyed were satisfied\u2013\u201374% of customers in urban areas and 60% in rural areas.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><strong>Recommendations: <\/strong>Some of the recommendations given by report are:<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\r\n<li>Infrastructure and capacity-building of utilities<\/li>\r\n<li>Prioritising the release of new connections for non-household customers;<\/li>\r\n<li>Transfer of subsidies or other benefits directly into a customer\u2019s account;<\/li>\r\n<li>Enhanced technology-driven customer service<\/li>\r\n<li>Ensuring 100% metering of customers.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: NITI Aayog, Ministry of Power, Rockefeller Foundation, and Smart Power India has launched the \u2018Electricity Access in India and Benchmarking Distribution Utilities\u2019 report. Facts: About the report: The report is based on a survey conducted across 10 states. Objective: The report captures insights from both demand (electricity customers) as well as supply side (electricity&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/electricity-access-utility-benchmarking-report\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Electricity Access &#038; Utility Benchmarking Report<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1731],"tags":[7934],"class_list":["post-90701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bill-and-acts","tag-electricity-access-in-india-and-benchmarking-distribution-utilities-report","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":1700795979,"cached_date":1704831647},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90701\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}