Electricity Supply Monitoring Initiative

Prayas (Energy Group)

PuneMarch 2015

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Activities:• Research & intervention (regulatory, policy)• Civil Society training, awareness, and support

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Electricity Supply Monitoring Initiative (ESMI)

ESMI is an initiative of Prayas, a Pune, India based energy think thank and consumer organisation.

It aims to provide evidence based feedback about the actual electricity supply quality -voltage and interruptions - experienced by consumers in urban and rural areas across the country.

For this purpose Prayas has deployed Electricity Supply Monitors (ESM) at number of locations.

ESM is a state-of-art, internet of things (IoT) technology and is a plug-in device that combines a voltage recorder and a communication modem. It can be easily installed at any location in an ordinary power supply socket. The ESM records voltage every minute at its location and sends the data to a central server using a standard mobile data network. ESMs are currently deployed at 60 locations across India and supply quality data is made available in user friendly manner at ESMI portal –

watchyourpower.org

www.watchyourpower.org

Electricity Supply Monitoring CoverageMarch 2015

ESM deployment statistics

States 9

Districts 16

Total Locations 60

-Megacities 20

-District Headquarters 5

-Other Municipal Corporations 12

-Gram Panchayat (Rural) 23

Available Data (Location hours) 180,000

Sample Location report available watchyourpower.org

The website allows all users to select an ESMI location, view and download reports showing quality of supply during the selected time period

The pie chart displays supply quality (Low voltage, Normal Voltage, High Voltage and No supply) for the selected period.

The interruptions profile table details the duration and number of interruptions

The bar chart shows the daily supply quality during evening hours ( 5 PM- 11 PM )

The final line graph shows the minute by minute voltage profile for the selected duration

Compare data across locations watchyourpower.org

The website allows a user to compare voltage supply quality across two or three locations simultaneously. This can help analyze variations in supply quality during the same time interval across multiple locations.

Number of interruptions (>15 min) and no supply hours during February 2015

The chart shows supply quality for different urban and rural (Gram Panchayat) areas covered by ESMI. Nearly 60% of these locations experienced more than 5 interruptions (>15 min) leading to more than 10 hours of outage during the month. Note that most of these locations are in other municipal corporations or gram panchayat areas.

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Number of supply interruptions (>15 min) at various ESMI locations during February 2015The chart shows number of ESMI locations in different states and the rural and urban locations. It also shows total number of supply interruptions at each location during the month.

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Evening hours (5 PM- 11 PM) supply quality in Udupi District, Karnataka - February 2015

Sample analysis using ESMI Data

Normal Voltage (206-270 V)

High Voltage ( >270 V)

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What next..We are happy to share with you supply quality data from 60 locations as of now. A few hundred more locations will be covered in the coming months.

We hope you find ESMI useful and relevant, and request you to visit the ESMI website – www. watchyourpower.org to view and use the available information.

The information will be useful to build awareness and provide evidence based feedback to policy makers , distribution companies and regulatory commissions to facilitate improvement in power supply quality. Such information can also be used to study linkages between electricity supply and people’s health and livelihood and many other aspects relating to power supply.

To know more about ESMI or for comments and feedback please write to us at esmi@prayaspune.org.

Acknowledgments

ESMI has been possible with the support of our ESM device manufacturers , deployment partners, IT consultants and location volunteers hosting ESMs. We appreciate the support of all these partners.

The Electricity Supply Monitoring Initiative (ESMI) was selected as a finalist for the Google Impact Challenge, India, 2013 given to NGOs using technology for social impact, which provided an impetus for the initiative to expand.