Energy storage stealing electricity

How do you steal electricity?

Methods of stealing electricity As illustrated earlier, the most common forms of stealing electricity are tapping electricity directly from the distribution feeder and tampering with the energy meter. Tampering with energy meters is done to manipulate the meter reading.

What are the advantages of electrical energy storage?

Electrical energy storage offers two other important advantages. First, it decouples electricity generation from the load or electricity user, thus making it easier to regulate supply and demand. Second, it allows distributed storage opportunities for local grids, or microgrids, which greatly improve grid security, and hence, energy security.

What is electrical energy storage (EES)?

Electrical Energy Storage, EES, is one of the key technologies in the areas covered by the IEC. EES techniques have shown unique capabilities in coping with some critical characteristics of electricity, for example hourly variations in demand and price.

What are the most common ways of electricity theft?

It includes illegal tapping of electricity from the feeder, bypassing the energy meter, tampering with the energy meter and several physical methods to evade payment to the utility company (Dick, 1995). Of which, illegal tapping of electricity and tampering with energy meter are the most identified and accounted ways of theft.

Why do people steal electricity?

This is an obvious situation, people who process large amounts of marijuana steal electricity, as the consumption would be very high (Cannabis News). This is similar in the USA, people who cultivate marijuana illegally, steal electricity to hide their overall electricity consumption to avoid police inspection and prosecution.

How to control electricity theft?

In many developing countries, electricity theft is publicly visible at many distribution feeders. In order to control electricity theft, several technical as well as non-technical methods are implemented for estimating and controlling theft. Though detection of point of theft is important, it is not a solution to control the theft.