A Review of Losses in Distribution Sector and Minimization Techniques

Alam, Mehebub; Yasin, Sk Mohammad; Gain, Mandela

doi:10.15662/ijareeie.2014.0310016

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Arokiaswamy²,

Ramalingam

2017

Wiley Encyclopedia of Electrical and Electronics Engineering

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Electric power has shaped and contributed to the progress and advances of humankind over the past century. Power should be available to the customer upon demand. The power companies strive to keep the reserve capacity to meet the sudden demand to a minimum. Load management techniques help the power company to reshape the electric utility load curves and to reduce the peak demand.The US government has filed lawsuits against electrical utility plants charging the release of massive amounts of air pollutants throughout the Midwest and east coast. Electrical utilities are responsible for 65% of sulfur dioxide emissions in the United States. If the customers demand more power, the power companies would supply power by building more generation facilities. This concept of supply‐side management has been very popular in the 1970s of the twentieth century. The demand‐side management techniques influence the customers to help to reshape the load demand curves.This article analyzes the load management techniques in great detail. The power company must provide incentives to help customers to modify the load curves. The customers must change their lifestyles to help to implement the load management techniques. Load management techniques make electricity do more by using it better. The important point is that less energy is wasted. Load management techniques could force the utilities to become globally competitive and control the demand and energy consumption.

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Load Management

Bellarmine

Arokiaswamy²,

Ramalingam

2017

Wiley Encyclopedia of Electrical and Electronics Engineering

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Appraisal of Aggregate Technical, Commercial and Collection Losses in Nigerian Electricity Distribution System

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Nwohu²,

Abubakar³

et al. 2021

Nig. J. Technol. Dev.

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From a practical point of view, no power system is free of losses. Power system losses, especially in distribution systems are usually high and result in increasing the cost of operations to the electric utilities and the price tag of electricity to the consumers. Aggregate Technical, Commercial and Collection (ATC&C) losses is a reliable parameter that reveals the true energy and revenue loss conditions of distribution systems. In this paper, mathematical models were developed for the determination of billing efficiency, collection efficiency, and ATC&C losses using Life Camp Area Office’s network of Abuja Electricity Distribution Company Plc Nigeria, as a case study. The average billing efficiency, collection efficiency and ATC&C losses for the period under review were found to be 89.73%,84.80%, and 23.79% respectively. An understanding of appraisal of these losses is important to the power system Engineers, energy policy makers, and the power firms as it enables areas of high losses in the network to be identified, which will give room for credible investment plans and subsequent monitoring of the losses. Keywords: ATC&C losses, billing, energy, distribution system, revenue

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A Review of Losses in Distribution Sector and Minimization Techniques

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