Online electricity theft detection and prevention scheme for smart cities. Issue 3 (17th September 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Ballal, Makarand Sudhakar; Suryawanshi, Hiralal; Mishra, Mahesh Kumar; Jaiswal, Gajanan
• Is Part Of: IET smart cities. Volume 2:Issue 3(2020)
• Page Start: 155
• Page End: 164
• Publication Date: 2020-09-17
• Subjects: electricity supply industry -- power overhead lines -- power system measurement -- power distribution lines -- tariffs -- underground cables -- power engineering computing -- power distribution economics -- power distribution reliability -- automatic meter reading -- real‐time systems -- programmable controllers -- demand side management; real‐time electricity theft detection and prevention scheme -- Maharashtra State Electricity Distribution Company Limited -- Smart City Pilot Project -- illegal consumers -- programmable logic control -- ETDPS -- underground cables -- distribution overhead line -- direct hooking -- communication facility -- distribution transformer -- energy audit -- advance metering infrastructure -- legally connected consumers -- extraneous tariff -- distribution network -- overload -- power supply and demand -- nontechnical loss -- power distribution utilities -- smart cities; Smart cities -- Periodicals; City planning -- Technological innovations -- Periodicals; Cities and towns -- Growth -- Periodicals; Sustainable urban development -- Periodicals; Sustainable development; City planning -- Technological innovations; Cities and towns -- Growth; Periodicals; 307.76
• DOI: 10.1049/iet-smc.2020.0045
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2631-7680

Abstract

Abstract : Electricity theft is a notable aspect of power distribution utilities due to advance in the non‐technical loss. It results imbalance between power supply and demand. It consequence overload of the distribution network and extraneous tariff invoke on legally connected consumers. The advance metering infrastructure is useful for an energy audit of every distribution transformer due to a communication facility. However, direct hooking on distribution overhead line or tapping from underground cables remains an interminable issue which has to be rigorously decimated. The objective of this study is to present real‐time electricity theft detection and prevention scheme (ETDPS) with the available infrastructure in the field. The proposed ETDPS is based on programmable logic control; it identifies the pilferage locations and estimates the power stolen by illegal consumers. The prototype is tested in the laboratory and the results demonstrate that the ETDPS works satisfactorily under diversified operating conditions. The proposed scheme is implemented as a part of their Smart City Pilot Project by Maharashtra State Electricity Distribution Company Limited, Nagpur (India) and the performance demonstrates its feasibility.