Stable and high quality electricity is the foundation of economic development. With the continuous development of economy and society, the productivity and living standard of rural areas are also gradually improving, and the corresponding demand for electricity is also constantly improving.

In order to further improve the power supply capacity, quality and safety of rural power grids and promote rural economic and social development, the National Energy Administration launched a new round of rural power grid renovation and upgrading in 2016, which will be completed by the end of this year. It is estimated that the total investment in the transformation and upgrading of rural power grids over the four years will reach rmb830 billion.

It is learned that of the 830 billion yuan invested in rural network renovation, 70 percent will be used to purchase equipment and materials for rural network construction, including transformers, switch cabinets, iron towers, wire and cable, power monitoring instruments and other agricultural network equipment and materials, and 30 percent will be used for civil construction.

Nowadays, electric energy has become an important energy resource in today's society. How to guarantee the stability and safety of power network and the power quality cannot be separated from the use of all kinds of power monitoring instruments and meters.

A new round of retrofit and the advancement of the smart grid, electricity production, transmission and use of the information Shared, electric power monitoring instrument will be in the link of each grid information "sensor", under the smart grid, power equipment information "connected", to realize the power grid, power measurement, measurement, analysis, diagnosis, control and protection.

Power monitoring instrument is a new and subdivided industry in electrical instrument industry. In recent years, with the attention of the state and governments at all levels to the development of the industry, China's electric power monitoring instrument industry has developed rapidly and made breakthroughs in a number of major scientific and technological fields. The reliability and stability of instruments have been greatly improved, and the gap with foreign advanced products is rapidly narrowing.

With the development of science and technology and the advent of the era of intelligence, power monitoring equipment is developing towards the direction of intelligence and digitization. Energy management, Internet of things, smart grid and other applications based on smart power meters will become the focus of future development, and will drive the continuous and rapid development of smart power monitoring meters.

The new round of agricultural network transformation and smart grid construction not only have a great impact on the development of the electric power monitoring and instrument industry, but also provide a broader space for the development of the electric power monitoring and instrument industry. In addition, with the development of society, the demand for nuclear power, hydropower, solar energy, wind energy and other new energy gradually expands, which also brings development opportunities for the power monitoring and instrumentation industry.

As one of the power grid equipment suppliers, electric energy meters and other power meter enterprises should pay close attention to whether there are new regulations in the state grid equipment standards in time, improve their technological innovation ability, timely update their products, and transform themselves into technology-leading enterprises, so as to gain long-term benefits and achieve long-term development in the construction of national smart grid.