Three years ago I wrote a piece on electricity theft in BC Hydro’s service territory. The utility serves a huge area, equal to the geography of Washington, Oregon, and California combined. At that time theft was a big problem, and growing. The utility estimated that losses had metastasized from 500 gigawatt-hours (GWh – a gigawatt-hour is a thousand megawatt-hours) in 2006 to approximately 850 GWh by 2013. The total cost was estimated to be in the order of $100 million annually (Canadian).

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