Report of Indian Institute of Public Administration ... - Ministry of Power

National Report (Vol.-II)
Study on ‘Impact of Restructuring of SEBs’
adequate number of police personnel and prosecutors, etc., to make the drive
against theft of electricity effective. Additionally, State Budgets should provide
adequate funds to establish the special courts and vigilance mechanism, in
consultation with the DISCOMs.
6.20.6 Further, Regulatory Commissions may be urged to allow the cost of
establishing special courts and related expenditures such as the cost of police
personnel, etc., as a pass through in the tariff.
6.20.7 District Magistrates (DMs) and Superintendents of Police (SPs) should be
required to play a greater role in handling power theft matters, since without
their active support, DISCOMs may not be successful in dealing with such
cases effectively. Grant of cash awards and incentives to the personnel of the
Utilities and to the district officials concerned who handle the electricity theft
cases would provide further motivation and encouragement.
6.21 Energy Accounting and Auditing
6.21.1 For effective energy audit, it is necessary to conduct proper energy accounting.
The principles of energy accounting are well known. In practice, however,
certain common difficulties/gaps are noticed. These and the solutions to
overcome them with a view to getting as near as possible to the optimum
solution are noted below:
(a) A precision energy meter of at least 0.2S class of accuracy should be
provided, along with provision of similar class of EHV current
transformer in the generator transformer bay. CEA’s ‘Regulations on
Installation and Operation of Meters’ need to be followed for this purpose.
(b) All EHV express feeders and all 11/22/33 kV feeders (including feeder for
station auxiliaries/colony supply) should be provided with meters. As far
as possible, all these energy meter readings should be collected from the
DAS of the sub-station itself. Simple checks such as to ensure that the
loss in the EHV transformer is less than 1 per cent and the sum total of
incoming and outgoing energy on the 11/22/33 kV busbar is zero or near
zero should be done every hour by the DAS or by the staff on duty where
DAS is not provided.
(c) All distribution transformers in industrial area/urban area/high
consumption area should be provided with meters on the LV side. The
energy loss should be directly computed by the billing computer without
any manual input of billing data.
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