Improving electricity efficiency in Turkey by addressing illegal electricity consumption: A governance approach

The causes of electricity theft: An econometric analysis of the case of Turkey

“…That is, higher education may affect the illegal usage in a decreasing way. However, before reaching this goal in the long run, governments can include specific topics on this issue to the curricula on the basic education level (Tasdoven et al, 2012). Students may have a favorable influence on their parents.…”

Costly ‘Throw-Ups’: Electricity Theft and Power Disruptions

“…Nevertheless, there is a consensus that T&D losses are a reasonable proxy of power theft in crosscountry comparisons despite differences in inter alia governance and electricity industry structures. Moreover, data on such losses are generally not disaggregated (into its technical and non-technical components) and technical energy losses tend to be relatively miniscule (Jamil, 2013;Tasdoven et al, 2012). As a result, in exploring the issue of electricity theft across countries, we inter alia compared the extent of T&D losses for Jamaica with the corresponding indicator for 91 other countries worldwide.…”

“…Second, power theft adversely affects the quality of electricity supply by overloading the system, which often leads to intermittent power interruptions (i.e. power outages) for both paying customers and illegal consumers, loss in output and damage to electrical appliances (Tasdoven et al, 2012;Tishler, 1993;Mwaura, 2012). Power outages caused by electricity theft are especially costly to firms as they often stop vital production from taking place.…”

“…''Technical losses'' are energy losses that occur naturally for example, due to power dissipation in electricity system components such as transmission and distribution lines while ''non-technical losses'' result from actions external to the power system, including electricity theft and non-payment by consumers (Depuru et al, 2011;Neto and Coelho, 2013). Tasdoven et al (2012) describe technical and non-technical losses as ''internal'' and ''external'' losses, respectively.…”

“…the movement of electrical energy from one location to another in an electrical power system), and ''distribution'' (i.e. the final stage in the delivery of electricity to end users) are the three main components of the electricity sector (Tasdoven et al, 2012).…”