Non-Hardware-Based Non-Technical Losses Detection Methods: A Review

Non-Technical Losses (NTL) represent a serious concern for electric companies. These losses are responsible revenue losses, as well reduced system reliability. Part of the loss is charged to legal consumers, thus, causing social imbalance. NTL methods have been developed in order reduce impact physical distribution systems and consumers. can be classified hardware-based non-hardware-based. Hardware-based need an entirely new infrastructure implemented, resulting high investment increased cost energy companies, thus hampering implementation poorer nations. With this mind, paper performs review non-hardware-based detection methods. use consumers’ data detect abnormal consumption. They network-based, which network technical parameters search data-based methods, science machine learning, hybrid combine both. This focuses on reviewing presenting overview literature analysis.