Abstract:
Market-driven economies and deregulated electricity industry environments have
stimulated minimization of the distribution losses even though they do not constitute
major operational or quality of supply problems. This research discusses a method for
evaluation of distribution losses and an effective management approach to loss
minimization and revenue collection. In this research the contribution of other authors
was sought on the distribution losses, their analysis and the various ways of minimizing
them was discussed. To get the opinion of the public and the workers on the situation of
the distribution losses in the Northern Electricity Distribution Company (NEDCo) of
Brong Ahafo region simple random sampling was used to get respondents. Interviews
conducted with some workers and management revealed that distribution losses have
categorized into two thus technical and non-technical losses. An analysis of the
distribution losses in Brong Ahafo region revealed that about 30% constitute 94.25
GWh of the power is lost from monthly power purchase from VRA. The study
recommends the introduction of prudent measures including electricity theft, monitoring
device and private partnership in the management of distribution system.
Description:
A Dissertation in the Department of ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONIC
TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION, Faculty of TECHNICAL EDUCATION, submitted
to the School of Graduate Studies, University of Education, Winneba, in partial
fulfillment of the requirements for award of the Master of Technology
(Electrical and Electronic Technology) degree
DECEMBER, 2018
