Electricity Theft in Kampala and Potential ICT Solutions
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Date
2014
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Springer, Cham
Abstract
Electricity theft is the main source of non-technical losses in electricity
distribution utilities. This paper presents data from an ongoing research to
study the causes of electricity theft in Kampala, Uganda and people’s response
to the efforts being made to reduce it. Our study reveals that electricity theft in
Kampala is largely due to economic reasons and corruption within the utility
company. It confirms that people perceive electricity theft as the utility’s
problem and are not willing to report electric theft suspects. We propose ICT
technologies to encourage consumer participation in reducing electricity theft.
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Keywords
Energy, Electricity distribution, Electricity theft, Non-technical losses, ICT, Mobile applications, Consumer participation
Citation
Mutebi, R. M., Otim, J. S., Okou, R., & Sebitosi, B. (2014, November). Electricity theft in Kampala and potential ICT solutions. In International Conference on e-Infrastructure and e-Services for Developing Countries (pp. 198-206). Springer, Cham. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-16886-9_21