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Electricity Theft
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Course Overview
Gain a thorough understanding of electricity theft including the dangers to life and serious injury and the cost
implications it presents to law-abiding customers. Delegates will also learn how theft takes place, how networks and
be monitored and how policies and strategies to combat theft can be introduced and implemented.
This course will provide delegates with a sound grounding in theft of electricity that will help them to tackle similar
issues facing them or their companies; it will also advise and update Regulators and Government policy staff.
Electricity companies can take various approaches when tackling theft of electricity, as follows: -
Amnesties where there is widespread endemic theft taking place;
Resorting to the criminal legal system;
Using the civil legal system to recover revenue and meter/supply damages;
Disconnecting supplies where there is evidence of interference;
Regular, routine inspections with well trained staff who are dedicated to revenue protection duties;
Casual inspections carried out by other staff who have been trained and who are motivated to look for and
discover meter or supply interference;
Installing additional meter and supply security measures;
Installing check-metering systems in areas of high risk and in areas of low risk for monitoring and comparison
purposes.
The particular anti-theft policies are a matter for each Government, Regulator and utility and will depend upon the
nature and extent of the supply interference taking place, the cost of revenue losses and damage inflicted on
metering and supply equipment, public safety issues, social conditions, etc. This course covers all of these matters
and delegates will gain a wide-ranging appreciation of the various elements that make up effective electricity theft
management from identification, the forms it takes, the monitoring of ‘suspect’ areas and remedial actions. Theft of
electricity is dangerous and it adds to the cost of running electricity generation, transmission and distribution systems.
To do nothing about it merely adds unnecessary load to networks that must be generated with the added costs being
passed on to law-abiding customers.