International Journal of Applied Power Engineering (IJAPE)
Vol 11, No 2: June 2022

Artificial intelligence for energy fraud detection: a review

Sushmita Poudel (Pokhara University)
Udaya Raj Dhungana (Pokhara University)



Article Info

Publish Date
01 Jun 2022

Abstract

Energy fraud in the distribution sector of electric utility includes electricity theft, meter tampering, or billing error. This fraud causing non-technical loss has led to an economic loss of the company. In order to detect and minimize fraud, different technologies have been used. From conventional methods to development in the field of artificial intelligence (AI), effective and reliable fraud detection methods have been proposed. This paper first provides an overview of different proposed methods for non-technical loss detection and evaluate the advantage and limitation of using those methods. Furthermore, several supervised and unsupervised machine learning methods for detecting electricity theft are discussed in summary along with their metrics and attributes used. Finally, these methods are classified based on the overall operation and the parameters used. This paper provides comparisons of several fraud detection methods using AI along with their weak and strong points and this information is very useful for the researchers who are working in the field of AI method for detecting fraud.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

IJAPE

Publisher

Subject

Electrical & Electronics Engineering

Description

International Journal of Applied Power Engineering (IJAPE) focuses on the applied works in the areas of power generation, transmission and distribution, sustainable energy, applications of power control in large power systems, etc. The main objective of IJAPE is to bring out the latest practices in ...