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Wireless Power Theft
Monitoring
Guide & Co-ordinator : Sri
Manaji A Gajare
Kamesh S Patil (3PD07EC021)
Kiran C V (3PD07EC024)
B M Vikas (3PD07EC011)
Pradeep Kanti (3PD05EC065)
Introduction
• Electricity theft is at the center of focus all over the world but electricity theft in India has a significant effect on the Indian economy, as this figure is considerably high.
• The losses, experts say, are currently 29 % of the total generation, which equals a shocking Rs 45,000 crore in the fiscal year 2009-10
• According to experts, if not for these losses over a decade now, India could have built two mega power plants of around 4,000 MW capacity every year
• Power loss in 2001-02 was 32.86% and increased to
34.78% in 2003-04 . In 2008-09 , it stood at 28.44% but currently the figure is again 29%. It is as high as 51% in
Jharkhand, 45% in Madhya Pradesh and 40% in Bihar.
The normal practice for power theft is to short the input and output terminals or to place a magnet on the wheel in case of old meters.
Few other ways for Power theft are
• Use of single phase supply from three phase supply.
• Disconnected neutral from both the ends.
• Used earth/separate neutral for return circuit.
• Connecting phase voltage to neutral of used single phase supply. Potential difference w.r.t. neutral of used single phase supply is zero. Hence power, product of voltage and current, will be zero.
• Isolating neutral from both ends.
• Drilling pin hole in meter box and in meter near MRI port.
• Disturbing electronic common reference point of measurement.
Literature Survey
These are some of the more common methods of identifying electricity theft today:
• Financial Rewards - Utility companies encourage consumers to report electricity theft, sometimes offering big rewards for information leading to conviction of anyone stealing electricity.
Unfortunately, most cases are never identified.
• Periodic Checks - Electricity theft
Monitoring
Guide & Co-ordinator : Sri
Manaji A Gajare
Kamesh S Patil (3PD07EC021)
Kiran C V (3PD07EC024)
B M Vikas (3PD07EC011)
Pradeep Kanti (3PD05EC065)
Introduction
• Electricity theft is at the center of focus all over the world but electricity theft in India has a significant effect on the Indian economy, as this figure is considerably high.
• The losses, experts say, are currently 29 % of the total generation, which equals a shocking Rs 45,000 crore in the fiscal year 2009-10
• According to experts, if not for these losses over a decade now, India could have built two mega power plants of around 4,000 MW capacity every year
• Power loss in 2001-02 was 32.86% and increased to
34.78% in 2003-04 . In 2008-09 , it stood at 28.44% but currently the figure is again 29%. It is as high as 51% in
Jharkhand, 45% in Madhya Pradesh and 40% in Bihar.
The normal practice for power theft is to short the input and output terminals or to place a magnet on the wheel in case of old meters.
Few other ways for Power theft are
• Use of single phase supply from three phase supply.
• Disconnected neutral from both the ends.
• Used earth/separate neutral for return circuit.
• Connecting phase voltage to neutral of used single phase supply. Potential difference w.r.t. neutral of used single phase supply is zero. Hence power, product of voltage and current, will be zero.
• Isolating neutral from both ends.
• Drilling pin hole in meter box and in meter near MRI port.
• Disturbing electronic common reference point of measurement.
Literature Survey
These are some of the more common methods of identifying electricity theft today:
• Financial Rewards - Utility companies encourage consumers to report electricity theft, sometimes offering big rewards for information leading to conviction of anyone stealing electricity.
Unfortunately, most cases are never identified.
• Periodic Checks - Electricity theft