Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/rser Review of various modeling techniques for the detection of electricity theft in smart grid environment Tanveer Ahmad, Huanxin Chen⁎, Jiangyu Wang, Yabin Guo School of Energy & Power Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China A R T I C L E I N F O Keywords: Smart meter Theft detection techniques Non-technical losses Advanced metering infrastructure A B S T R A C T This review paper focuses on the various modeling practices for the identification and apprehension of non- technical losses. The modeling practices are extremely vital to develop, upsurge energy performance, examine and foresee the performance of power transmission & distribution of the electrical system. The data mining based models are innovative and have the subsistence to examine an enormous potential of energy consumption re- cords and performing
