Review Of Detection Of Electricity Theft In Smart Grid Environment

Authors: Diwakar Agrawal, Asst. Prof. Mamta Devi Sharma, Associate Prof. Ravi Kumar Hada

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Abstract

Electrical energy plays an important role in our day to day life and backbone for the industries. Today we can’t imagine life without electricity. Because of the unnecessary actions taken by human beings, wastage, and theft of power increasing day by day. If proper actions are not taken to save electricity, future generations have no scope of living their life in light, peace, and harmony. Electricity theft is a great concern for the utilities. Many times power theft has been a major impact on the economy as well as the development of the country. The objective of this project is to design a system that will try to minimize the illegal use of electricity and also reduce the chances of theft, and if theft happens appropriate actions will be taken.

Introduction

Electricity theft is a very common problem, especially in our country. As our population is high so the use of electricity is tremendously high. There are many operational losses involve in the generation, transmission, and distribution of electrical energy. Whereas the losses implicated in generation can be technically defined, but transmission and distribution losses cannot be precisely quantified with the sending end information. In T&D the Technical losses are computed with the information about total load and the total energy bill. Electricity theft is a social evil, so it has to be eliminated completely. Power consumption and losses have to be closely monitored so that the generated power is utilized in a most efficient manner. The system prevents the illegal usage of electricity. A large amount of electricity will save by implementation of this system will, and thereby electricity will be available for more consumers than earlier, in a highly populated country as INDIA. Of all the inventions made by mankind electricity is the most important one. Today’s life is impossible to imagine without electricity. In India, every year there is very increasing number of electricity thefts across domestic electricity connection as well as industrial electricity supply, which results in loss of electrical energy and because of which we are facing the frequent problems of load shedding in urban as well as rural areas so as to overcome the need of electricity for whole state. Also the ways using which theft can be done are innumerable so we can never keep track of how a theft has occurred, and this issue is needed to be solved as early as possible.

Conclusion

In this paper we have reviewed three schemes for controlling electricity theft. Advance metering infrastructure introduces a smart meter and communication path way between user and consumer which is an efficient work for controlling theft through data management and load controllers. Advance metering infrastructure is applied on a wider range of consumers which can somehow reduce the observability of each and every consumer in a short time period; therefore introduction of central observer meter can modify this broad range of consumers to number of grouped consumers. In this scheme each group will be observed by load controllers and if any miss act is found in consumption of electricity the user will be tripped from the circuit. This central observer meter scheme is better than advance metering infrastructure but before tripping the user it would be best if it first alert or warn the user .Therefore dwelling towards prepaid energy meters used for theft control are more efficient. Consumers are under supervision of prepaid energy metering scheme, and they get alerts on every instant and are coerce for recharging the cards for further energy usage. In this scheme theft is controlled in an affable way.