Measures and setbacks for controlling electricity theft

North American Power Symposium 2010, NAPS 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Depuru, Soma Shekara Sreenadh Reddy ^a   Wang, Lingfeng ^a   Devabhaktuni, Vijay ^a   Gudi, Nikhil ^a  

^a The University of Toledo   (United States)

Author keywords

Electricity theft; Energy policy; Non technical losses; Transmission and distribution (T D)

Indexed keywords

CONTROL POTENTIAL; DETECTION AND ESTIMATION; ELECTRICAL LOAD; ELECTRICITY THEFT; GENERATING STATIONS; NON-TECHNICAL LOSS; QUALITY OF SUPPLY; UTILITY COMPANIES;

CRIME; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; ENERGY POLICY;

ELECTRICITY;

EID: 78650037261     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NAPS.2010.5619966     Document Type: Conference Paper

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