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Abstract: India’s power sector is characterized by inadequate and inefficient power supply. Since the country’s independence,
consumers are confronted with frequent power cuts, and fluctuating voltages and frequencies. In addition, system losses are high
throughout India’s T&D networks. In addition to these enormous direct losses, the indirect losses in terms of lost productivity and
trade, sagging economic activity, rapidly shrinking of domestic and foreign investment in the sector, uneconomical and mis
allocated investments in captive power, and reduced income generation could be many-fold [3]. In December 2011, over 300
million Indian citizens had no access to electricity. Over one third of India's rural population lacked electricity, as did 6% of the
urban population. Of those who did have access to electricity in India, the supply was intermittent and unreliable. In 2010,
blackouts and power shedding interrupted irrigation and manufacturing across the country [11].
India currently suffers from a major shortage of electricity generation capacity, even though it is the world's fourth largest energy
consumer after United States, China and Russia. All energy supplied to a distribution utility does not reach to the end consumer.
A substantial amount of energy is lost in the Transmission and distribution system by way of Technical and Non Technical losses.
The distribution system accounts for highest technical and non technical losses in the power system. The transmission and
distribution losses in our country, which were around 15% up to 1966-67, increased gradually to 28.36 % by 2011-12.
The purpose of this paper is to analyze Technical and Non Technical Losses and its impact on power sector with the help of a
case study and MATLAB Simulation in power systems. The project area chosen for this study was the Raj nagar Extension major
section in Ghaziabad district, Uttar Pradesh because it is not only rural but also an urban area located adjacent to Rajnagar.
INTRODUCTION:
In order to study technical and non technical losses, which constitute a portion of the total losses in electrical power systems, the
logical first step is to understand the complete picture of power systems losses. Power system losses can be divided into two
categories: Technical losses and non technical losses. Technical losses are naturally occurring losses (caused by actions internal to the
power system) and consist mainly of power dissipation in electrical system components such as transmission lines, power transformers,
measurement systems, etc. Technical losses are possible to compute and control, provided the power system in question consists of
known quantities of loads. Technical losses are easy to simulate and calculate; computation tools for calculating power flow, losses and
equipment status in power systems have been developed for some time. Improvements in information technology and data acquisition
have also made the calculations and verifications easier. Non technical Losses (NTL), on the other hand, are caused by actions external
to the power system, or are caused by loads and conditions that the technical losses computation failed to take into account. NTL are
more difficult to measure because these losses are often unaccounted for by the system operators and thus have no recorded information
[7].
Domestic 230
Commercial 20
Industrial 04
Agriculture 06
It is important to note that the number of units consumed actually by the consumers whose meters were faulty is actually 22.55
per cent higher than the number of units reserved for them. This gives an indication of the magnitude of commercial losses
suffered by the GCMPL because of faulty meters.
It was found that at the peak time between 7 pm to 9 pm the load loss is 34.20 per cent for 1500 kVA transformer and the peak
load data obtained for the transformers are given in Table 1.4.
Table 1.4 Peak Load Loss
CASE STUDY -I
In this work, a case study of 66 kV substations, Raj Nagar Extension was undertaken. Raj Nagar Extension is situated at a
distance of about 7 km from district headquarters, Ghaziabad. It is a 66/11 kV substation. The main incoming lines of 66 kV are
coming from Muradnagar. There are two step down transformers in the substation which step downs the 66 kV incoming voltage
to 11 kV. There are total 8 outgoing 11 kV feeders from the substations details of which are as tabulated below in Tables 5.1(a)
and 5.1(b). The readings have been taken from the 11 kV energy meters installed at substation. The readings of whole three
month have been collected which are shown in Table 5.2. The bus bar losses in terms of percentage have been calculated. After
that total losses have been shown which includes sum of transmission, distribution and non technical losses.
Table 1.6 (a) Detail of Transformer T1
S.No. Name of Feeder Type of Feeder
1. KW Sristi Urban
2. Classic Residency Urban
3. Quantum Residency Rural
4. Garhi Rural
5. Missal Garhi Rural
For sake of simplicity, only one outgoing 11 kV feeder of Classic Residency has been considered for case study. Similar
technique can be applied to any of the substation in Uttar Pradesh to calculate the losses. The losses have been calculated by the
difference of the units supplied to Classic Residency and units which had been consumed or billed in that particular area. The
U.P.P.C.L has proper record of all the incoming and outgoing units in the form of a log sheet. For this, it is decided to have first
find out the total number of consumers in that particular area and their type i.e. whether they are domestic, commercial or small
power units. Then units consumed in each area have been calculated and have been added up. This sum has been subtracted from
the actual incoming units given to that area. The difference will give the idea of transmission, distribution and non technical
losses. Generally major portion of this sum is covered by non technical losses because transmission and distribution losses are
generally less in nature than non technical losses. Table 1.7 shows the detailed analysis of incoming and outgoing units from the
main 66 kV substation.
Table 1.7 Incoming and Outgoing Feeders of Substation
3 73 0.92 40 0.82
5 92 0.88 25 0.86
24 59 0.92 65 0.92
A load profile of 24 hours has been shown for simplicity and the further calculations have been done with the help of Newton-
Raphson method. Figure 1.1 shows the variation of industrial and residential loads during 24 hours.
Time NTL
Load NTL
(KVA) Load
(Hrs.) Added at Power
Bus 2 Factor
1 1.89 -0.0240
2 2.74 -0.0240
3 4.04 -0.0240
4 3.26 -0.0259
5 3.19 -0.0244
6 4.23 -0.0230
7 5.08 -0.0224
8 6.80 -0.0232
9 10.48 -0.0237
10 9.80 -0.0249
11 8.15 -0.0255
12 9.56 -0.0245
13 8.25 -0.0248
14 10.60 -0.0258
15 11.24 -0.0274
16 10.36 -0.0238
17 9.20 -0.0238
18 7.45 -0.0273
19 7.25 -0.0289
20 8.40 -0.0205
21 7.60 -0.0207
22 3.25 -0.0260
23 4.16 -0.0242
24 3.20 -0.0275
The power factor contributions chosen here are negative because the NTL load is assumed to be Inductive, i.e., motors or light
fixtures. The extra load and negative power factor addition to second bus are shown in the Figures 1.3 and Figure 1.4
respectively.
Figure 1.5 Active Losses with NTL Figure 1.6 Reactive Losses with NTL
In the case where bus 1 is used as the slack bus, the average power loss in the transmission line is around 137.42 Watts (average
of active power losses over 24 hours), while the power loss calculated using the average values of power and power factor is
110.20 Watts. The result is that the average of losses calculated using the sum of data from individual times is not equal to the
losses calculated using the average values. The maximum active power losses occurred as shown in graph are 720.06 watts
maximum reactive power losses are while 886.7 Watts. This has been clearly shown with the help of figures 3.6.
Figure 1.8 Percentage Increase in Losses Figure 1.9 Total Increase in Losses
Even though the increase in transmission loss places a greater burden on the transmission equipment, the greater cause for
concern would be the NTL load itself. The total power losses in the transmission line are shown in the Figure 1.9 which is sum of
NTL active power and losses increase due to NTL. When the lines get overheated, serious consequences can follow, from loss of
material strength to the weakening of insulation possibly dangerous if the lines are in a crowded area.
At this point, it is getting clear that making calculations for expected losses accurately is nearly impossible in practice. The way to
obtain a fairly accurate value of average load demand is to utilize the information the utilities use to calculate the electric bills.
The calculation requires energy consumption accumulated up to the beginning of the time period and the consumption
accumulated at the end of the time period. The accumulated consumption at the end of the period is subtracted by the accumulated
consumption at the beginning of the period. The result is the total consumption during the time period in kilowatt-hours, and the
portion of the bill for energy consumption is based on this number. The net summary of the simulation result is shown in table
1.10.
Table 1.10 Net Result Summary
Summary of losses Calculations on each Calculations on net average
hour’s Average basis Basis
Losses without NTL 137.42 110.24
(Watts)
Losses with NTL (Watts) 164.16 134.8
Increase in losses (Watts) 26.74 24.56
% Increase in losses (Watts) 19.45 22.27
CONCLUSIONS
The distribution loss projected area was estimated to be of the order of 29 per cent.
The peak load loss is even higher and could be as high as 35 per cent.
The power factor during peak load is very near to unity and it comes down to about 0.8 during off-peak period.
The tail-end voltage regulation is of the order of 42 per cent during peak load period.
The peak load loss in kW got from the reading from field is 173.4 Kw
The number of units to be saved from loss should be 24.36 units per day
By changing the single phase line to three phase line, the conductor required is only 30 % of single phase two wire
system,
If a single phase two wire system is changed to three phase four wire system then the saving in losses will become 5/6th
(83.33%) of the present system.
About 10 per cent of the energy meters are faulty.
Replacement of the faulty energy meters would further reduce the non technical loss (i.e. the energy consumption tendency
is higher if the meter is faulty). The average energy consumption of a consumer with a faulty energy meter is 23 per cent
more than their tariff level. This fact indicates a serious loss of revenue to the board.
In the end, it has been concluded that utilities will have to concentrate on reducing technical and non technical loss. Reducing
these losses ensure that the cost of electricity to customers will be reduced and in turn the efficiency of the distribution network
will be improved.
The technical loss component of the distribution loss can be reduced considerably by adopting system improvement
measures such as:
Replacement of high capacity transformers by more number of lower capacity transformers
Conversion of single-phase lines to three phase lines
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