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Electricity Theft in the United States
The United States loses $6 billion of power to theft every year, according to Forester Media.It says after credit card data and automobiles, electricity is the third most stolen commodity in the country. The report says a substantial amount of electricity theft is done by undercover marijuana-cultivation collectives across North America.“People tamper with the meters, bypass them, or set up an independent grid connection to tap into the transformer. Some even put their own transformer on a higher voltage line,” Matt Spaur, senior marketing manager with Space-Time Insight told Forester Media.The report says energy theft in North America is only 1-3 percent but in other countries, it reaches up to 10-40 percent. It says, however, it is still very difficult to curb electricity-theft in the continent because the thieves are becoming more sophisticated by the day.
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"Electric Detectives" track down power thieves.
"Electric Detectives" track down power thieves.