Slide1:

The electricity sector in India supplies the world's 6th largest energy consumer,
accounting for 3.4% of global energy consumption by more than 17% of global
population. the
. More than 50% of India's commercial energy demand is met through the country's
vast coal reserves.[4] The country has also invested heavily in recent years in renewable
energy utilization, especially wind energy.[5] In 2010, India's installed wind generated
electric capacity was 13,064 MW.[6] Additionally, India has committed massive amount
of funds for the construction of various nuclear reactors which would generate at least
30,000 MW.[7] In July 2009, India unveiled a $19 billion plan to produce 20,000 MW of
solar power by 2022.
Slide2: geo spatial resource portal
July 2006: GIS mapping has helped BSES teams unearth power theft of
4300 KW. The penalties imposed on the defaulters amount to around Rs.
17 crore (USD 3.6 million). BSES has started mapping all its licensed
areas and customers. Their electricity consumption and loads patterns are
being closely monitored. Any deviation is immediately flagged at BSES
end.

“With the help of GIS mapping techniques, BRPL enforcement teams

swooped down on GK Residency a posh guest house in South Delhi and
found it pilfering power to the tune of over 95 KW,” said the spokesperson.
A geographic information system (GIS), geographical information system, or
geospatial information system is a system that captures, stores, analyzes, manages
and presents data with reference to geographic location data. In the simplest terms,
GIS is the merging of cartography, statistical analysis and database technology.
GIS may be used in archaeology, geography, cartography, remote sensing, land
surveying, public utility management, natural resource management, precision
agriculture, photogrammetry, urban planning, emergency management, landscape
architecture, navigation, aerial video and localized search engines.
Slide3: Did you know that India loses about INR 40,000 Crores (35%)
annually Orissa loses about INR 1250 crores per year due to distribution
losses. This is representative of a loss of above 40%. There are divisions
Punjab: 57K consumers indulge in power theft
TNN, Mar 23, 2011, 06.17am IST
PATIALA: If the penalty imposed by the Punjab State Power Corporation
Limited (PSPCL) authorities is any indication, power thefts are on the rise in
Punjab.
The figure of Rs 130 crore of penalty imposed on power thieves in 2009 has shot up to
Rs 192 crore during the last 11 months. During the anti-power theft raids carried out
by the Enforcement Wing of PSPCL from April 2010 to February 2011, 1,72,958 power
connections were checked. Of these 57,550 consumers were found to be indulging in
power thefts, wrong metering or overdrawing power than their authorized load, for
which the enforcement wing of PSPCL imposed a penalty of Rs 121.19 crore on power
thieves during this time period.
which operate at an efficiency of 26-30% ie loss of 70-74%.
Slide 5: The four-level strategies adopted by Karnataka to check power theft
and pilferage have resulted in record reduction of transmission and
distribution losses. Other states should take a leaf out of Karnataka's
enforcement measures, stated a recent circular from the Union power
ministry which was circulated to all states. In its successful fight against
power pilferage, Karnataka has earned the number 1 spot for the first time
in the country. From a distant number eight, the state managed to secure the
top slot in 2009-10, pushing the country's leader in power reforms, Gujarat,
to second place.
"We have set a record by collecting nearly Rs 140 crore through power theft
penalties. This is the highest revenue generated by any state in a single
financial year. From April to July 2010, we have already collected Rs 50
crore," Special teams were deployed to check consumer data from feeders
with major pilferage. Five plastic industries in Peenya industrial area here
have been booked for power theft and imposed a total penalty of Rs 8.8 lakh.
Vigilance squad of BESCOM, Bangalore, while conducting inspection of
electrical installation on March nine caught five plastic industries in
Andhrahalli Industrial Area and Hegganahally Inustrial area in Peenya for
power theft by tampering meter security seals, according to BESCOM.
Criminal cases have been booked against all the five industries.
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For the first time since the constitution of the Jharkhand State Electricity
Board (JSEB), an entrepreneur named Amit Gupta, owner of induction
furnace and rolling mill in Adityapur Industrial Estate, was arrested by
police on the basis of an FIR lodged by JSEB under the relevant sections
sections of the Electricity Act.
Power theft too has gone hi-tech in the country’s IT capital of Bangalore.
Bescom vigilance squad has detected hi-tech power theft in which remote
control devices were used to tamper with electricity meters.
Hi-tech devices were being used to tamper the meters at 11 installations most
of which were either the ice factories or plastic industries. Of these, remote
control devices were used by three installations.

The Delhi Electricity Regulatory Commission (DERC) has launched an inquiry to find out if power companies are
harassing consumers by penalising them for electricity theft without conclusive proof. "Karnataka has the second highest
number of power theft cases with 45,892 recorded in the past three years, second only to Andhra Pradesh
India's power revolution seems to have run out of steam due to transmission
and distribution losses. The country is losing a huge quota of power to faulty
distribution networks and power theft every year. 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. The drop in losses since 2001 is a negligible
3%
A team of engineers with the Maharashtra State Electricity Distribution Company Ltd ( MSEDCL) trapped the
consumer who used special remote to stop power meter. The accused had devised a method that was difficult

to detect. The remote acts in such a manner that when

An example of one utility thief's method for slowing down an electric meter by using a screw driver inserted
through a predrilled hole in the meter glass.

Three of the most common methods used for stealing power include
inverting the meter, placing straps behind the meter, or switching
meters. Inverting most meters (turning the meter upside down) will
cause the meter to run backwards, which actually takes watt hours
off the reading. Remarkably, some customers get so greedy that they
reverse too many hours off their meters. Thus, they show a net loss
from one meter reading to the next.
Placing jumpers or metal straps behind the meter is an effective,
though dangerous, way to steal electricity. If done correctly, some of
the electricity will flow through the straps and the remainder will
continue to register on the meter. Unfortunately, some of the thieves
attempting to use this method have electrocuted themselves. Others
have created dangerous conditions that have resulted in fires.
Some enterprising thieves steal an extra meter and place the spare
meter in their socket for 10 to 15 days each month. Then, before the
meter reader is scheduled to read their meter again, they put the
meter provided by the utility back in the socket. Meter readers
usually catch these people when they make random checks of the
meters between meter reading cycles.