Intelligent electricity meter coverage of the amur electric meter is 100% (date: July 3, 2017)
After nearly 10 years of construction, the heilongjiang province priorities straight for the customer to intelligent watt-hour meter upgrade has been basically completed, the intelligent watt-hour meter coverage reached 100%, is sufficient to provide the basis of intelligence, automation, service without interference.

According to the unified deployment of national grid company, heilongjiang province will launch the "smart electricity supply of 10,000" jobs from July 1 to launch intelligent transaction fees.
The business, which is aimed at residents and low-voltage business users, expects 80% of its users to meet smart pay by the end of the year and reach full coverage by 2018.

Compared with the traditional payment method, the biggest change of smart payment is to provide "daily" pre-settlement service.
In case of insufficient or insufficient early warning text, the electric utility shall be able to understand the electricity usage and renew the electric charge.
At the same time, fully open no artificial, point-to-point, electronic payment services.
Through mobile phone text messages, WeChat electronic means, such as change the door post "electricity notice" mode of traditional rush fee, can solve the paper note waste of natural resources, and can better protect customer privacy, ensure notification in place.
In addition, the time, progress and coverage of smart meters in some areas can be seen from the Internet.

Smart meter coverage in some areas
Beijing: Beijing has been promoting smart meters since 2011.
By the end of 2013, there were 3.4 million smart meter customers, covering 50% of all resident users.
In 2014, the Beijing municipal electric power company completed the replacement work of 2 million residents and changed to cover about 2,300 residential communities in 16 districts of Beijing, covering 80 percent of the city's residents.
By the end of 2015, all city residents have installed smart meters.

Shanghai: smart meters have covered the city of Shanghai during the 12th five-year plan period.

Shanxi: by the middle of October 2014, its power within the jurisdiction of Shanxi Province electric power company users reached 8.4 million, of which 7.977 million electric power customer have replaced smart meters, in the province of the coverage reached 92.2%, the electricity information can be automatically collected.
The head of the company said it would step up efforts to make it 100 per cent of its customers by the end of 2014.

Henan province: as of 2015, China's henan power smart meter coverage is less than 40%.
In 2016, henan electric power completed 24.6 million smart watch promotion and collection system construction work, which was nearly five times the installation amount in 2015, and the collection coverage of smart meters reached 96%.

Urumqi: from the state-owned urumqi power supply company, the company learned that using smart meters can not only facilitate the power sector, but also bring great convenience to the public.
By the end of 2015, urumchi has achieved 100% of the smart meter coverage, and the smart meters are "fully covered, fully collected and fully charged".

China's smart meters will reach full coverage in the 13th five-year plan
As an important part of smart power grid, smart meters play a decisive role in the construction of the whole smart grid.
Under the guidance of the national energy administration policy, under the full force of power grid enterprises, the upgrading of smart meters in the country has achieved periodic results.

It is reported that by the middle of 2016, there will be 220 million Internet network, 50 million Internet network meters and new users will be replaced by smart meters.
By October 2016, the coverage rate of smart meters in the national grid area has reached 80 percent, and the coverage rate has reached more than 70 percent nationwide.

In 2015, the national grid's measurement targets included installing a smart meter with 606 million, and the potential for China's smart meter market was enormous.
In 2015, the number of smart meter users in China will exceed 140 million.
During the 13th five-year plan period, the combined smart electricity meters and electricity management system market of the two power grids are about 16 billion yuan per year.
Residential users in China in terms of "one household one table" smart meters total demand of about 500 million, the national residential users will also realizing a complete coverage of smart meters, by 2020, its Chinese, south intelligent network will be completed by the end user on the basis of the smart grid.

It is believed that soon, the national network will build the largest electricity information acquisition system in the world and realize full coverage of the smart meters of 395m households in the whole region.
The state grid corporation on overall recommendation of the construction of the smart metering system opinion "pointed out that in 2016, the state grid will initiate a batch of smart distribution network demonstration projects, strengthen old metering device upgrade, 60.58 million sets of new intelligent watt-hour meter, users will reach 377.58 million, 95.5% of the total acquisition coverage, new smart meters investment 23 billion yuan, realizing a complete coverage of basic electricity information acquisition.