Non Technical Losses
Find where the electricity numbers do not add up.
Non-technical losses include theft of service, meter bypass, faulty meters, billing errors, incorrect mapping, and unmetered loads.
Many utilities estimate non-technical losses because they do not measure enough points on the distribution grid to know exactly where electricity is going.
Power-flow accounting
Optiminer can compare electricity entering a local area with electricity measured and billed downstream. If the imbalance is larger than expected after normal physical losses, the area can be flagged for investigation.
Revenue and fairness
Reducing non-technical losses improves utility revenue, reduces unfair cost shifting to paying customers, and gives investigators more timely information.