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| After Nagaland J&K is number two in power thefts, courtesy defaulter politicians | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Mar 14: Although the administration has lost an aggressive campaign to recover dues from the defaulters, the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir is still number two in power thefts.
After Nagaland, Jammu and Kashmir recorded huge Aggregate Technical & Commercial (AT&C) losses during the last five years.
Notable, according to a list issued by the J&K Power Development Corporation Limited, politicians of all political parties are among the defaulters.
In a written reply in the Rajya Sabha, the Minister of Power and Renewable Energy, R K Singh said that line losses in electrical networks are predominantly due to ohmic (heat) loss.
“Illegal electricity connections and theft of power lead to commercial loss which affects the financial health of the distribution companies with consequential effects like poor quality of power. The Aggregate Technical & Commercial (AT&C) loss is one of the key indicators of DISCOMs performance, which includes the impact of power theft also”, he said.
Nagaland has the highest number of 60.69 percent AT&C losses followed by Jammu and Kashmir with 59.28 percent AT&C losses.
The Minister said that the pilferage of electricity is one of the several reasons for AT&C losses of the power distribution utilities.
“It is the prime responsibility of respective Distribution Utilities to take adequate measures to stop power theft. However, Govt. of India supplements the efforts of States/ distribution utilities by providing funding for the purpose under various schemes launched from time to time”, he said.
The Minister further said that Under RDSS Prepaid Smart meters including System metering are important interventions in reducing distribution losses in the Utilities and in facilitating automatic measurement of energy flows and energy accounting as well as auditing without any human intervention.
“Along with the installation of prepaid Smart metering and the associated Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI), System metering at the Feeder and Distribution Transformer level with communicating feature would also be taken up to facilitate proper energy accounting every month for identification of defaulting consumers, theft-prone pockets and high loss areas”, the Minister informed.
“Under the scheme, advanced ICT like Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning (AI/ML) would be leveraged to analyze data generated through smart meters to detect the theft cases and to prepare actionable MIS from system-generated energy accounting reports so as to enable the DISCOMs to take informed decisions on power theft along with loss reduction. |
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