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IDGC of Centre - Tambovenergo division summed up the implementation of measures to reduce electricity losses in 2018. The actual level of losses for the year was 7.58% of the total electricity supply to the grid, which is 0.003% lower than the planned figure. The savings amounted to 96.5 thousand kWh or 290 thousand rubles.
A weighty effect was given by raids to curb non-metered and non-contractual consumption. From January to December 2018, unscrupulous consumers paid under 34 acts of non-contractual consumption totalling about 4.33 million rubles and 104 acts of non-metered consumption included in the volume of electricity transmission in the amount of 21.43 million rubles (including for previous periods). The rest of the violators will be indebted forcibly, judicially, with the imposition of all legal expenses on the perpetrators.
Also, the reduction of losses was facilitated by the replacement of metering devices that failed or were identified unfit for billing. Other organizational and technical measures were carried out. Including - replacement of overloaded and underloaded transformers, replacement of wires for a larger cross-section with overloaded power lines and uninsulated wire with self-supporting insulated wire in places of greatest power losses. Also, transformers were disconnected at low load conditions at substations with two transformers, transformers with seasonal load and phase load equalization in distribution grids of 0.38 kV.
“The effective implementation by Tambovenergo of measures to reduce losses contributes to improving the efficiency of the power grid complex, the quality and reliability of electricity supply to consumers in the Tambov region. The funds saved as a result of their implementation are spent by the company, among other things, to develop the region’s power grid infrastructure,” stresses Deputy General Director of IDGC of Centre - Tambovenergo division director Nikolay Bogomolov.
