Since August 2010, the State Grid Yinchuan Power Supply Bureau has upgraded the electric meter in the area, and has installed smart meters. At present, the city has completed the transformation of more than 80,000 households, and technical personnel are working hard to accelerate the construction of more than 1,000 households per day. It is expected that by the end of this year, 300,000 households will be completed.
At the same time, citizens are paying more and more attention to the transformation of smart meters, and they are constantly asking questions such as the need to change, and the benefits of retrofitting. To this end, the reporter specifically interviewed the relevant person in charge of the Yinchuan Power Supply Bureau and responded to questions raised by the public.
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Why should I install a smart meter?
Liu Jianjun, who lives in the lakeside district of Xingqing District, is very puzzled by the installation of smart meters in Yinchuan. In his opinion, the original meter is very convenient to use. When the electricity bill is paid every month, the salesperson only needs to tell the salesperson how much money to pay for the electricity to the end of the month. With 5 kWh remaining, the self-appliance meter will remind itself to buy electricity. It's good, why should you change the smart meter?
Disambiguation: The replacement of smart meters is an important part of the national smart grid customer terminal construction, and it is the basis for future realization of the networking and interaction of power supply services. In the smart grid operation in the future, citizens' households will not only use electricity customers, but will also become small-scale power generation sources and realize a “distributed and networked†power grid as a whole. After a smart meter is installed in a resident's home, the customer can not only inquire about their own recent power usage, but also can check the real-time electricity price in the home smart meter, and choose between solar power generation and online power supply. The promotion and use of smart meters can also improve the accuracy and timeliness of meter reading data, achieve real-time settlement of electricity bills, realizing fair transactions between operating companies and customers, and citizens can also use networks, banks, and prepaid cards. A variety of channels for remote payment, saving customers time, and better experience of convenient electricity services.
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Why does the smart meter not show the degree?
“The smart meter shows the amount of electricity. Why does it not show electricity like the old meter? We don’t know how much electricity is used in a month. When should we pay the electricity?†Ms. Fan, who lives in the Ziyuan Community, raised her. Doubts.
Doubt: The existing meters are divided into two types: fee-controlled and volume-controlled. The old meter is a power-controlled meter. The biggest difference from a smart meter is that the smart meter realizes the transaction between the enterprise and the customer through the electricity cost control method. Real-time settlement of accounts. In the future, the gradual implementation of the national electricity price reform policy, the monthly electricity price ladder, there will be real-time peak-valley electricity prices, volume-controlled electricity meter can not meet the actual needs of the national electricity price preferential policies.
Network-based electricity billing methods provide you with convenient conditions for the timely collection of personal electricity bills and help you to use electricity to save electricity bills. Accurately speaking, the use of a fee-controlled meter card to purchase electricity actually means that the customer has already charged a certain amount of account funds to your account. It does not represent your degree of purchase. The amount of electricity that you use every day is calculated by the meter. The real-time settlement is realized automatically under the account, just like the real-time payment after the recharge of the telephone fee and the refueling card. Everyone doesn't understand this. It's just a matter of spending habits. Therefore, only your accumulated power consumption is displayed at design time. If you want to inquire about other information, you can search through the network and customer service hotline.
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The new meter seems to go faster?
"The newly installed smart meter seems to go faster. When I go home, I also watch TV and wash my clothes. How do you feel that electricity is used more than before?" Wang Jing, a citizen, asked her questions.
Doubt and doubt: smart meters are "intelligent" but never "energy consuming." Smart meters installed at the scene are centralized and verified by the Ningxia Electric Power Measurement Center, a statutory energy verification unit authorized by the regional government's quality supervision and management department. They can meet the national metrological supervision standards before installation. use. Smart meters are manufactured in accordance with national metrological regulations, and there is no problem of going faster or slower.
The smart meter adopts a full-electronic design and is not affected by factors such as frequency, temperature, voltage, and higher harmonics. It has a higher sensitivity than traditional meters. Some appliances (such as computers, mobile phone chargers, televisions, and set-top boxes) are not used, though they are not used. Unplug the power plug when it is in standby state, still consume power; this year's winter -15 °C low temperature weather lasts longer than in previous years, user heating equipment use frequency, duration is also more than in previous years, this may be the main form of this feeling the reason.
If the public has doubts about meter metering, they may contact the metering supervision department to verify the meter. If there is an inaccurate measurement, the power supply bureau will be responsible for backfilling the electricity bill.
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Is the electricity price going up to transform the meter?
“Upgrade and renovation projects may often require price increases.†As soon as we hear of the need to replace smart meters, the first reaction of many citizens is that the price of electricity will rise. Is that really the case?
Explanation: The price of electricity is one of several commodities directly controlled and controlled by the government. It is approved and promulgated by the government's price department and is responsible for interpretation. The power supply company is responsible for the implementation. It has nothing to do with the installation of a smart meter.
The composition of electricity prices is very complex, and is determined by factors such as the integrated on-grid tariff and the characteristics of local economic structure. "If electricity prices are adjusted, it is necessary to go through important procedures such as soliciting opinions, proposing plans, holding hearings, and approvals from the price department. This is not what people want to say. It hasn't got any price adjustment information." The staff also suggested that the current electricity price for residents' livelihood was implemented at the time of adjustment in 2006 (0.4486 yuan/kWh), and the last time was in 2002 (0.447 yuan/kWh), and each adjustment was only a few cents. Everyone need not worry too much. It is a national policy to maintain the stability of the national electricity price policy. The government has adopted relevant policies with great caution. We should have confidence in our national policies.
In addition, the new electricity meter will publicly and transparently record the user's electricity consumption during use. If the balance of the customer's electricity purchase card is not consumed, the price department will adjust the electricity price, and the smart meter will immediately make a corresponding price adjustment, and use the electricity before and after adjustment to implement the corresponding price.
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How to use the new electric card?
After replacing it with a new card, recharging can only go to the power supply bureau. Tossing back and forth is very troublesome. New card in the end?
Doubt and doubt: Because the use of new cards involves information docking, the first recharge should be handled in the office of the power supply bureau to which it belongs. After that, it can be handled at all outlets of the power supply bureau and self-sale motor with the UnionPay logo. "At present, the bank's and postal outlets' information systems are being upgraded to perfection, and they do not support new forms of electricity purchase for the time being." Staff explained.
For the use of new electric cards, the users of the districts that have been remodeled in 2010 should go to the power supply bureau of the district to handle the card replacement business; the users of the districts that have been transformed in 2011 can pick them up at the on-site service points.
The power supply bureau will set up temporary service points in the community. The staff will send the new card to the citizens' homes after the replacement of the meter. If no new card is received during the construction period, the public can use the original card to apply for a new card at the temporary business office. Temporary business processing points are from 9:00 to 18:00. If the new card cannot be replaced during the change process, members of the public can switch to the nearest power supply business office. The normal working hours of the power supply business hall are from 8:00 to 17:30, and the working hours of the holidays are from 9:00 to 16:00.
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Haven't received a new card yet. What should I do if there is a power outage at home?
"I just changed my smart meter and I haven't received a new card. I don't have electricity at home. What should I do?" The citizen Ren asked her questions carefully.
Doubt: When the smart meter was installed on site, 10 yuan of electricity has been preset. When the balance of the remaining electricity in the household's home electricity meter is 5 yuan, the electricity meter will promptly notify you that you need to purchase electricity in a timely manner. At this time, you can insert a hard ground card into the meter card slot, and the meter will resume power supply; when the remaining electricity charge is zero, Power off again. Therefore, members of the public are requested to redeem the new card and recharge the card for the first time as soon as possible after the pre-charging fee.
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What about the remaining power of the old card?
“What should I do with the remaining power of the old card when I change the watch?†Some users who have not yet exchanged new meters have raised questions.
Doubt: Before the renovation, ask the public to confirm that the old card power has been entered into the old table. The power supply bureau will record the remaining electricity in your old table before replacing the new one. When the new card is issued, the remaining electricity will be converted into the remaining amount. Recorded in a new card.
If you did not insert the card for the last purchase of electricity into the meter, please bring the original card and the new card to the district/county power supply bureau to handle the charge of the old card to recharge the new card.
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How to use the new table, how to check their own power situation?
Many citizens think that the installation of smart meters is a lot of trouble and the query is not as convenient as it used to be. Is that the case?
Doubt: After the smart meter is installed, the public can press the query button (the only button) on the meter. The meter will display the current total electricity consumption, remaining amount, voltage, current, and power consumption information.
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How to use electricity to save energy?
Many citizens think that smart meters have high sensitivity. Should they be careful and prudent afterwards?
Doubt: The promotion of smart meters has positive significance for guiding residents to save electricity. For example, the staff said, “Some households prefer to turn on the water heater for a long time. This phenomenon seems to be widespread. In this inadvertent situation, electricity is wasted. Therefore, energy conservation and emission reduction should be started from the point of view of life.†A reasonable use of electricity habits has a decisive influence on the daily life of citizens. In this reminding the public, in the ordinary life, people need to be powered off and reduce unnecessary waste from the root.
The public can also take some simple measures to save electricity, for example, timely unplug the power plug of standby operation electrical appliances; try to use energy-saving lamps (bubble) (more than 60% more energy than traditional incandescent lamps); electric water heaters set lower Holding temperature; air-conditioning cooling temperature set below 26 °C and so on.
On the way to and from work, you can control your home appliances at any time. You can control your home devices through a wireless remote control, telephone, Internet, or voice recognition system, and you can automatically enter the power-saving mode. This is a beautiful encounter. It will not only appear in movies and television. In the works, we will gradually enter our real life as the smart grid continues to improve.