The electricity department has managed to reduce aggregate technical and commercial (AT&C) losses by 2.87% this year, officials of the Dakshin Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam (DHBVN) said on Wednesday, citing checks on electricity theft on a large scale as the main reason. The department registered 48,729 cases of power theft in 2020-21 and fines to the tune of ₹162 crore were realised, officials said.
Dr Balkar Singh, the managing director of DHBVN, said that the transmission and other losses in 2020-21 have decreased sharply as the discom focussed on reducing losses. “The transmission losses have come down from 16.50% last year to 13.63% this year. One of the major reasons for AT&C loss is electricity theft. To check the theft of electricity, campaigns were also organised from time to time by DHBVN, with special teams to check electricity theft and monitor them regularly,” said Singh.
Aggregate technical and commercial losses are a combination of energy loss (technical loss, theft and inefficiency in billing) and commercial loss (default in payment and inefficiency in collection).
Singh also said was the government departments and agencies were asked to pay electricity bills on time and they also launched a large-scale exercise to disconnect electricity connections of defaulting consumers.
