PETALING JAYA: Pestech International Bhd has received a letter of award (LoA) from Tenaga Nasional Bhd (TNB) for the supply and delivery of smart meters for the Smart Billing Project Deployment Phase 2 in Selangor, Kuala Lumpur, Putrajaya and Cyberjaya. The total contract amounts to RM38.38mil and will be effective from the date of the LoA. The duration is for two years.

In a filing with Bursa Malaysia, Pestech said that smart meters or advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) is an electronic device that records the consumption of electricity, and communicates the information to TNB for monitoring and billing through radio frequency. “Aligned with TNB’s plan to equip a total of 9.1 million households across Peninsular Malaysia with the smart electric meter by year 2026, Pestech aims to revolutionise technologies used in power distribution and take projects that are at the forefront of the smart grid area, ” it said.