On the electricity shortage, price and electricity theft nexus

On the electricity shortage, price and electricity theft nexus

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Article ID: iaor20131501
Volume: 54
Issue: 5-6
Start Page Number: 267
End Page Number: 272
Publication Date: Mar 2013
Journal: Energy Policy
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Keywords: electricity, Pakistan, public policy
Abstract:

The study concludes that electricity crisis cannot be handled without combating rampant electricity theft in the country. Pakistan is facing severe electricity shortfall of its history since 2006. Several measures have been implemented in order to mitigate electricity shortage. The focus has been on raising the installed capacity of electricity generation and transmission. The present policy results in expensive thermal electricity generation mostly using expensive and environmentally hazardous furnace oil and inability of utilities to recover their cost of supply although there is unprecedented rise in electricity tariffs. This study concentrates on the electricity demand and traces the relationship between electricity shortfalls, tariff rate and electricity theft in the background of recent electricity crisis using the data for the period 1985–2010. We employed the Granger causality test through error correction model and out‐of‐sample causality through variance decomposition method. Empirical evidence shows that electricity theft greatly influences electricity shortfalls through lowering investment and inefficient use of electricity.

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