The Impact of Quality Investment in the Electricity Market Based on a Socioeconomic Market Model Contribution

The paper objective is to insert into the socioeconomic market model (TAROT), the investments in antitheft equipment's and inspections in order to reduce the nontechnical energy losses of an electricity company. Thus, the same with the necessary capital available for this investment can be planned to achieve the maximum operational efficiency. Although the investment is interesting from the point of view of reducing electricity theft, which is the main factor of nontechnical losses, the company usually holds a restricted capital for it. The paper proposes a methodology for determining the regulatory tariff value, when there is a percentage of electricity theft and when there is an amount of investment in commercial quality (Q). Also, there is a proposal to determine the value of optimized investments in technical and commercial quality (B*, Q*), in order to obtain the optimal or minimum regulatory tariff to be charged of the energy consumers.