In general electricity people (employees) goes for inspection in urban/ rural areas sometime as a regular inspection and sometime as per information. Many times it is not possible to inspect all the areas where hook line is there or not. Many people use electricity years after year’s illegal way (using hook lines). Now a days there are more modern techniques to steal electricity. Many times in outskirt /sensitive areas, it is not possible to go there for hook line inspection. In this way a huge amount of electricity has been used without paying a bill. This is one of the most important reasons for running State Electricity Corporation running in loss.
How to solve these problems?
What are the possible solutions to solve this problem?
What are the innovative ways to detect hook lines?
What are the innovative management solutions on this issue?
I've posed the question to a local smart meter manufacturing company and I received a sensible answer.
One can install a smart meter the transformer at the substation and on everything it connects to. Except for a few losses, it is simple matter to see when there is more electricity delivered to the substation than the sum of all the smart meters.
http://www.mertech.co.za/enermatics-energy
Dear @Suman, the solution is in Advanced Metering Infrastructure! "Remote metering, reading, and monitoring of electricity consumption are referred to as advanced metering infrastructure (AMI). Drastic reductions in prices of metering and telecommunication equipment is making their adoption economically feasible, starting with large consumers and gradually applying AMI to medium and small ones. The effectiveness of the tool to detect and discourage theft and other ways of unmetered consumption is enormous, as shown by the recent experience in developing countries (including the Dominican Republic, Honduras, and Brazil)"! World bank ordered this research :"Reducing Technical and Non‐Technical Losses in the Power Sector" !
http://siteresources.worldbank.org/EXTESC/Resources/Background_paper_Reducing_losses_in_the_power_sector.pdf
Really smart grid.
Redesign each distribution transformer, that device that reduces voltage from many thousands to the domestic 115 or 230 volts AC. The new transformers provide power at random voltage levels and perhaps even frequency, and depend on home gateway devices, after proper authentication, to convert power to the domestic standard.
The authentication protocol can be conducted "out of band," say over the Internet.
Not exactly practical for next week, but it essentially does with power what we have long been doing for data or even cable TV service.
"Smart Meter Advances Stop Electricity Theft" is a fine reading . PDF may be downloaded.
http://electronicdesign.com/power/smart-meter-advances-stop-electricity-theft
I've posed the question to a local smart meter manufacturing company and I received a sensible answer.
One can install a smart meter the transformer at the substation and on everything it connects to. Except for a few losses, it is simple matter to see when there is more electricity delivered to the substation than the sum of all the smart meters.
http://www.mertech.co.za/enermatics-energy
Thank you Sir @David Johnson , @Ljubomir Jacić , @Albert Manfredi , @Kamal Eddin Bani-Hani for your valuable, informative answer on this forum.
A simple application of Kirchoff's Current Law with Well protected Smart meters at the individual load, as any additional unknown load in between will adds up to the current drawn at substation,
I like David and Joydeep's answers (which are essentially the same), for their amazing simplicity. The only tradeoff being, for that simplicity, if the numbers don't match expectations, you require a utility company person to go and investigate. As opposed to the system being, let's say, self-protected.
That's one good point, and it common that current level rises due to temporary faults as well. It would be better to add few sensors so that the point of overdrawn current can be detected and then we can decide if its just a faulty case or actual hooking by checking the characteristic, as a fault and load will have different characters.
It is possible by implementing "Advance energy management using GSM technology".
This resarch paper avaiable on my profile.
By providing fixed amount of electricity to each house. If any one stolen electricity the that aeras other metet get shut down. So peoples can not stole electricity.
Not only this Gsm is used in this project . So it's energy consumption can set from any where.
Addressing the social awareness by educating the mass about rights and wrongs and the risk involve in this illegal extraction can be the first choice. Smart Grid or Micro Grid along with Smart metering system also can help. And besides all this shielding the lines with advanced metering infrastructure and implementation of prepaid consumption can be an useful solution.Mere provisions of anti theft resolutions in the Electricity Act is not going to help.
Smart meters are an effective solution but from my observation, power theft tends to be more prevalent in poorer countries and the cost of equipping every energy user with smart meters is prohibitive.
So education is certainly important.
Another effective method is to give the community ownership of the electricity network. People are less likely to steal from their neighbours than from an anonymous entity with whom they have no personal contact. Community ownership also gives users an incentive to check for and report on energy theft and stimulate the development of micro generation and use of renewable energy.
- Badges
- Science topic
- Similar topics
- Engineering
- Electrical Engineering