KATHMANDU, JANUARY 23
Nepal Electricity Authority has managed to control a great deal of electricity leakage in the first five months of the current fiscal, thanks to its consistent and effective strategic moves.
According to the NEA, the leakage has been reduced to 9.10 per cent. This is 2.82 per cent less than during the same period last fiscal.
Minister of Energy, Water Resources and Irrigation Pampha Bhusal had instructed the Authority's leadership to leave no stone unturned to control electricity leakage.
Distribution has the biggest share among electricity leakages. The NEA has aimed to reduce the overall leakages to 15.5 per cent within the current fiscal and 9.5 per cent within distribution.
"Efforts to curb technical and non-technical leakages will be made more effective and all teams have been mobilised accordingly," said NEA Executive Director Kulman Ghising.
Ghising said electricity leakages were reduced significantly due to a number of factors such as construction of new sub-stations, upgradation of the existing sub-stations, increase in the use of electricity in industrial areas and success in making meter reading more effective.
Changing old transformers, encouraging consumers to use three-phase meters, adding conductors and regular monitoring on hooking, among others, also led to the control of electricity leakage.
The NEA had also taken action against those with huge arrears to clear. The NEA said highest electricity leakages were recorded in Madhes.
The overall electricity leakage of all 23 distribution centres under the provincial office in Janakpur stands at 12.99 per cent. In Bagmati Province, Sindhupalchowk Distribution Centre recorded the highest leakage.
A version of this article appears in the print on January 24, 2022, of The Himalayan Times.
