Electricity theft is a comprehensive problem in both developing and developed countries. Although the theft causes great economic losses and reduces reliability of power grids, the problem continues to grow. This paper proposes a mathematical model of multi-featured prepaid-postpaid energy meter with distorted distribution voltage. The evidence shows that theft is increasing in most regions of the world. The financial impacts of theft are reduced income from the sale of electricity and the necessity to charge more to consumers. Electricity theft is closely related to governance indicators, with higher levels of theft in countries without effective accountability, political instability, low government effectiveness and high levels of corruption. Distorted distribution voltage is the most significant revision in the new configuration since traditional distribution voltage is directly consumable in electric powered devices and facilitates the theft. The proposed model is simulated and tested over MATLAB/ platform. The results obtained are promising and complying with the existing system.

Prepaid, Postpaid, Energy Meter, Distribution Voltage

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