Indonesia calling for electricity engineers

The electricity market of South East Asia is set to boom, this is according to Frost and Sullivan.

This is motivated by an expanding residential sector and the industry's replacement of old fashioned electromechanical metres with more newer technologies - particularly in Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and Vietnam.

Revenues of the market (including electronic, electromechanical, prepaid and advanced metering infrastructure (AMI)/automatic metre readers), were US$403.9million last year -- expected to grow to US$483million in 2018.

The Filipino and Indonesian governments are also working to raise the electrification ratio and to improve grid efficiency, further heightening demand for electricity metres.

‘Electricity Meters Market in Southeast Asia’ reports that manufacturers who want to successfully enter the growing market, should offer durable and highly accurate electricity metres, with power back up capabilities.

Indonesia is said to be a particularly profitable market for electricity metre manufacturers, as utility companies – for those who are seeking to reduce their operational expenses, electricity pilferage, and power loss - instigating a widespread metre replacement project to install prepaid metres in the residential sector.

Other worthy markets include Thailand, where AMI trial projects are assumed to begin, as well as Singapore, where AMI metre installation in both the commercial and residential sectors has already commenced.