The Technical Revisions Required to Prevent Electricity Theft
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Electricity theft is a comprehensive problem in both developing and developed countries. Although the theft causes great economic losses and reduces reliability of power grids, the problem continues to grow. In this study, the revisions required to prevent electricity theft are specified and a new distribution grid configuration with revisions is presented. Distorted distribution voltage is the most significant revision in the new configuration since traditional distribution voltage is directly consumable in electric powered devices and facilitates the theft. But, dishonest customers utilize various theft techniques such as power meter tampering, illegal connections to the streetlights line and manipulation of power control panel. Therefore, the proposed grid configuration was designed by considering widely used electricity theft techniques.
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