Electricity lines leak as much as £100 per household but it's harder to plug than water pipes

Water is not the only system with waste. There are also losses from the electricity network, even as the cost of energy continues to shoot up. Here's why water company wastage is a more damaging problem ⬇️

drew scorn after a drought was declared across large swathes of England.

“Electricity is generated at power plants which tend to be located far away from the consumers,” says Janusz Bialek, a professor of Power and Energy Systems at Newcastle University. The losses are higher in the distribution network because it operates at a lower voltage, which is necessary to get energy into people’s homes safely.

“And that’s the cost that the network owners should be taking into account,” he said, adding that consumers would ultimately foot the bill. Prof Bell says: “I don’t believe network losses are a significant problem in Britain. We should be incentivising the network companies so that when they are putting in new network assets such as transformers, overhead lines or underground cables, they buy a design or a type of asset that has the lowest possible losses.

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