OREANDA-NEWS. August 21, 2013. JSC "Moscow United Electric Grid Company" struggles against unfair consumers of electric energy within the framework "Honest kilowatt". The main objective of the action is reducing non-technical losses of the Company in electricity transmission and inform the public about the high risk and responsibility for the unauthorized connection to the grid.

Over the last six months of the current year, experts of JSC "MOESK" carried out 2,802 raids to detect cases of unauthorized consumption.

According to "Energouchet", the branch of JSC "MOESK", employees of the Company for the reporting period made 1,504 reports on off-the-meter electricity consumption. Total, in violation of the accounting rules, unfair individuals and businesses consumed 117.2 mn kWh of electricity, which is 60% more than the same period last year. 141.1 mn kWh of unmetered electricity were included in the productive output from January to June of the year 2013. The effect of the actions to identify off-the-meter electricity consumption in the first half of this year amounted to 294% of the planned number.

1,865 reports on 85.5 mn kWh or RUR 364.2 mn were made on electricity consumption without proper agreement with the power company. Since the beginning of this year, unfair consumers paid to JSC "MOESK” for 38.8 mn kWh in the amount of RUR 158.5 mn. For the first six months of 2012, fans of "free" electricity paid to the company 7% more than the same period last year. Compared with the planned targets, the effect of actions to identify cases of unauthorized electricity consumption was 142% in the first half of this year.

Active work to detect and prevent any unauthorized connection to the grid and electric energy consumption is carried out by "Energouchet" branch staff in every branch of JSC "MOESK". Due to the systematic work the Company is able to return some of the funds, which were lost as a result of the actions of unfair consumers.