The Northern Electricity Distributor Company (EDENORTE) on Monday reported that during the month of August they were dismantled multiple illegal connections in communities of the Santiago province, which allowed to avoid Millionaire losses to the national electrical system.
According to the loss reduction management, the operations carried out in different areas detected a Energy fraud equivalent to 15,916 kilowatts hour (KWH), valued at 163,616.48 pesos. The institution informed that if they have not been eliminated, the connections would have represented Annual losses projected from 190,992 kWh, with an economic impact of 1,963,397.76 pesos.
In the community of The bateyLa Canela Municipal District, several facilities were intervened that operated clandestinely.
Among the cases, EDENORTE He dismantled 50 meters of single -phase line that fed three transformers used in a chicken farm, a fish hatchery and a pig farm. He illegal consumption detected was 1,800 kWh, equivalent to 18,504 pesos, with an annual projection of $ 222,048 pesos.
In the same area, two structures were removed irregularly to two transformers, with a Illicit consumption of 1,200 kWh, valued at 12,336 pesos, which would have generated Annual losses by 148,032 pesos. Two other structures were also detected that supplied fraudulently to the same number of transformers, with a consumption of 900 kWh (9,252 pesos) and an annual damage estimated at 111,024 pesos.
Details of the dismantling
Also, in the cinnamon a cut-out was dismantled that supplied energy to a hacienda, with a calculated fraud In 800 kWh (8,224 pesos), which would have meant a Annual loss of 98,688 pesos.
On the other hand, in the sector El Ejido de Santiagothey identified direct connections of large dimensions that benefited dozens of users. One of them, about 80 feet, fed 12 users with a irregular consumption of 3,016 kWh (31,004.48 pesos), which would have reached losses for 372,053.76 pesos a year.
Another direct connection of 115 feet illegally supplied nine users, With a consumption of 8,200 kWh valued in 84,296 pesos. According to the calculations of EDENORTEthis fraud was equivalent to 98,400 kWh per year, with losses greater than one million pesos (1,011,552 pesos).
