CESI wins an international tender among more than 20 consultancy firms
CESI has been selected by Uzbekenergo as technical advisor for the development of a Smart Metering installation project in Uzbekistan.
The metering infrastructure, financed by the Asian Development Bank, forecasts 1 million smart meters as a first step of installation at households and industrial clients in 3 local regions, and it will be followed by similar projects financed by ADB, World Bank e Islamic Bank of Development for a total investment of 1 billion US dollars and 4 million meters.
The complete smart metering installation project, expected to be finalized by 2015, will allow to significantly reduce the current level of losses on the grid while reducing the operating costs of the Distribution company.
CESI has been awarded after an international tender that involved the most important technical consultancy firms specialized in Digital Metering from Germany, Holland, UK and India, proving its strong leadership in this market once again. CESI’s project clearly resulted the best one from the technical standpoint, where a clear point of difference was made by both the team and the important references of the metering projects already developed in Italy, Spain, Serbia, Montenegro, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and South America.
Matteo Codazzi, CESI’s CEO, comments:
“We are extremely proud of being able to contribute in the modernization of the electric infrastructure in Uzbekistan, aiming to reduce the losses on the grid and sensibly increasing its efficiency. The electric distribution grid undoubtedly plays a key role in the structural development of a Country.”