REDUCTION OF ELECTRIC ENERGY LOSSES — DIRECTION OF INCREASING EFFICIENCY OF THE NETWORK COMPANY

The scientific article is devoted to one of the topical issues of the electric power market research. This factor is due to the fact that the reform of the electric power industry in Russia poses many fundamentally new issues and tasks that require indepth study, analysis and development. In the course of the reform, power grid companies were separated into a separate type of business, and although they operate in the natural monopoly sector, improving their efficiency is an indispensable condition for their existence and development in modern conditions. The main goals of electric grid companies are to ensure the reliability and quality of electricity supply to consumers and to create the possibility of technological connection of consumers. Achieving these goals is impossible without the establishment of an effective management system for their production assets. After the transition to market relations and the orientation towards increasing the efficiency of the Russian economy, the role of reliable supply of electricity to all sectors of the production sector has significantly increased due to the uninterrupted operation of the Unified Energy System of Russia. The scientific article considers the problems of reducing the losses of electric power of the regional grid company. The need to reduce excess electricity losses is shown — they determine the direct losses of the grid company. The structure of losses is analyzed. The paper analyzes the program in the field of increasing the energy efficiency of the grid company, which includes a plan of measures aimed at reducing the cost of technological transportation of electric energy. It is shown that the cause of high commercial losses of electric power of the grid company is the growth of unaccounted and non-contractual consumption, and measures to reduce unaccounted consumption of electric power are most difficult to implement. Technical and organizational measures are proposed as an option to reduce commercial losses.

electric grid complex, electric power industry, reliability, deterioration, power supply, efficiency, actual losses, technological losses, non-contractual energy consumption, by-feeder analyses, multistage tariffs.

Putilova N. N. Reduction of electric energy losses – direction of increasing efficiency of the network company // Business. Education. Law. 2018. No. 3 (44). P. 149–154. DOI: 10.25683/VOLBI.2018.44.330.