Eight years later, electricity leakage has decreased by half, bringing in an extra 12 billion rupees annually.
Over the past eight years, the Nepal Electricity Authority has cut the amount of electricity that leaks through the transmission and distribution system in half. The amount of power leakage from the system was cut in half during the fiscal year (AY) 2072–2073 and was just 12.73 percent in the final year, 2080–81.
3.33 percent of the electricity leaks go toward the transmission line, and 9.40 percent go toward the distribution. Eight years ago, distribution accounted for 19.80% of leakage out of 25.78 percent, with the remaining portion going toward transmission.
In 2073–2074; 2074–2075; 15.32 percent in 2075–2076; and 15.27 percent in 2076–2077, the percentage of electricity leakage was decreased to 22.90 percent. The percentage of leakage rose to 17.18% in 2077–2078. Following that, in 2078–2079 and 2079–2080, respectively, the leakage decreased to 15.38 percent and 13.46 percent.
According to Kulman Ghising, the authority's executive director, significant progress has been made in leakage control during the past eight years by streamlining and improving the procedures used. Following the termination of load shedding, Executive Director Ghising stated that the actions taken to manage technical and non-technical electricity leaks have improved the control of distributional electricity leaks.
"Due to electricity leakage in the system, billions of dollars of income was being lost directly, due to the campaign conducted to control technical and non-technical leakage, the electricity leakage towards distribution has decreased significantly and this ratio is lower than neighboring countries" , Executive Director Ghising declared, "During this time, only by means of leakage control." An annual surplus of around 12 billion rupees has been produced, and this has a direct positive impact on the authority's profit when the lost money is reimbursed.
The authority saw a net profit of Rs 1.50 billion in year 073/74 after posting a net loss of Rs 8.89 billion in 2072/73. Since then, the Authority has maintained a profit, and in the most recent year, it brought in 13 billion 31 crore rupees (final audit awaiting). The Authority's cumulative loss eight years ago was 34 billion 61 million rupees; in the last year, the Authority's cumulative profit was 47 billion 41 million rupees.
Large capacity transmission lines, substations, adding conductors, replacing overload transformers, promoting the use of three phase and smart meters, and strengthening substation capacity have all been used to reduce technical leakage.
Ghising stated that "we have reduced the leakage with the assistance and cooperation of the managers of distribution and customer service, the workers who work around the clock, the home administration, and everyone else."
The authority is running a campaign to control theft, recovering toll arrears strictly, taking strict action against those who steal by bypassing and hooking meters, changing closed meters, encouraging them to take meters, and identifying and reading customers who do not have meter readings (stock units) in order to control non-technical leakages. is Every year, the authority sets a target for leakage control at each of its distribution centers, and it conducts operations in line with that goal.