OREANDA-NEWS. February 09, 2010. Specialists of IDGC of Centre conduct permanent work on revealing of power theft. Significant results can be obtained owing to joint work of power engineers and consumers. To increase population power supply quality, revealing of unaccounted and non-contractual power consumption IDGC of Centre, JSC announced the action "Inform on theft".

Illegal connection of power installations causes degradation of power quality of consumers, damage of household appliances. In case of illegal power consumption payment for unaccounted power is automatically distributed between all residents, including prompt payers, in apartment houses with input metering devices. Unrevealed cases of power theft increase the Grid company losses. All this leads to growth of tariffs for services in future periods.

The power company calls its clients to inform about theft facts immediately. Prompt elimination of cases of illegal welding, power grid equipment theft, illegal connection to wires, violation of integrity of metering devices, connection to foreign objects will help the Company to secure high quality of power, reduce losses in grids.

IDGC of Centre asks to inform on theft facts by free direct line phone of power engineers 8-800-50-50-115 as well as by phones of duty operators in each regions of power grids or to put in an application at the Company’s Web-site /clients/client/theft/.

After receipt and processing of the information the employees of IDGC of Centre record power theft fact on site. Monetary remuneration amounted to 20% of the amount paid by a violator will be paid a client, who informed on theft, out. In case of false report monetary remuneration is not paid out.