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The advancement of renewable energy technologies has seen the emergence of customer owned grid tied wind and solar microgrids. These microgrids offer an opportunity to energy users to lower their energy costs as well as enabling the power suppliers to regulate the utility grid. However, the integration of the renewable energy based sources into the smart grid increases the complexity of the main grid...
Total losses in transmission and distribution (T&D) of electrical energy including nontechnical losses (NTL) are huge and are affecting the good interest of utility company and its customers. In this context, importance of customer load profile evaluation for detection of illegal consumers is explained in this paper. Classification of the customers based on load profile evaluation using SVMLIB...
Smart meter is an advanced energy meter that measures consumption of electrical energy providing additional information compared to a conventional energy meter. Integration of smart meters into electricity grid involves implementation of a variety of techniques and software, depending on the features that the situation demands. Design of a smart meter depends on the requirements of the utility company...
Most utility companies in developing countries are subjected to major financial losses because of non-technical losses (NTL). It is very difficult to detect and control potential causes of NTL in developing countries due to the poor infrastructure. Electricity theft and billing irregularities form the main portion of NTL. These losses affect quality of supply, electrical load on the generating station...
Most of the utility companies in developing countries incur huge losses because of the non-technical losses (NTL). It is very difficult to detect and control potential causes of NTL in developing countries due to their poor infrastructure. Electricity theft and billing irregularities form a major chunk of NTL. These losses affect quality of supply, electrical load on the generating station and tariff...
Electricity theft is a major problem in developing countries and it has been very difficult for the utility companies to detect and fight against the people responsible for theft. This paper proposes an architectural design of smart meter, external control station, harmonic generator, and filter circuit, which can detect and chastise the appliances of people responsible for electricity theft. The...
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