Overview, issues and prevention of energy theft in smart grids and virtual power plants in Indian context

Sampath Kumar V., Jagdish Prasad and Ravi Samikannu

Energy Policy, 2017, vol. 110, issue C, 365-374

Abstract: This paper is an excerpt and a comprehensive research on Non-Technical losses during T&D. In developing countries, the utility companies are finding it difficult to address losses due to theft, meter tampering and allied problems which affect the quality of supply, increase on generation load and has a significant economic impact on the functioning of the utility company and its genuine consumers in the form of an excessive tariff. As the single largest contributor to T&D losses, various aspects and methods used for theft and detection mechanisms are discussed. This article also highlights the components of AMI and how a simple method of two smart meters equipped with harmonic generators could be used in conjunction to detect theft.

Keywords: Technical loss; Advance metering infrastructure; Attack tree; Vigilant energy metering systems; Electrocution (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2017.08.032

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