Effect of NTL on Power System Losses at Industrial Load

Deepak Madan; Meenakshi Dhakla; Balvinder Dhull

Merely generating more power is not enough to meet present day requirements. Power consumption and losses have to be closely monitored so that the generated power is utilized in an efficient manner. This illegal electricity usage may indirectly affect the economic status of a country. Also the planning of national energy may be difficult in case of occurrence of T{&} D Losses. The T{&}D Losses have been quite high in India. The reasons cited for such high losses are; lack of adequate T {&} D capacity, too many transformation stages, improper load distribution and extensive rural electrification etc. In addition defective metering, un-metered supply, and pilferage have resulted in high Non-Technical Losses (NTL). The purpose of this paper is to investigate NTL in power systems. These are losses in power systems that cannot be predicted or calculated ahead. Non-technical losses can also be viewed as undetected load of customers that the utilities don’t know. When an undetected load is attached to the system, the actual losses increase while the losses expected by the utilities will remain the same. In this paper, Residential {&} Industrial loads (operated at 11KV known as primary distribution system) are considered at node1 and node2 respectively in 3-bus system {&} NTL load is added to the industrial load and power system losses are measured.

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• Volume 3 Issue 4, July 2012

Year:

2012

Type of Publication:

Article

Keywords:

NTL; Power System Losses; Industrial Load

Journal:

IJECCE

Volume:

3

Number:

4

Pages:

967-972

Month:

July