A Serious and Growing Problem
A large percentage of non-technical loss takes place at the point of service, where electricity users either partially or completely bypass their meter to prevent it from accurately measuring their energy consumption.
Until now, detecting this illegal (and dangerous) activity has been either abstract or costly. You could assess your overall energy balances, which indicate the asset and date/time associated with high losses, but do not report on the specific meter or customer associated with the assets causing the loss. Plus, energy balances require prior knowledge of the network topology, and this information is not always available.
So how do you fix this serious and growing problem? You could take the costly step of sending workers out to inspect random meters, hoping to find the ones that are at fault or have been tampered with. But no matter the source of the problem, remediating non-technical losses from energy fraud, theft or misconfigured meters is a difficult, costly, and inefficient process.
Until now.