Abstract
The study aimed to investigate the factors leading to the loss of electricity in Ramallah and Al-Bireh Governorate in Palestine. In order to achieve the objectives of the study, descriptive and quantitative analysis was used in this study. Based on the data of the Jerusalem Electricity Company, and the data of the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics for 2010-2018, the Ordinary Least Squares method (OLS) was used in regression analysis, and by Granger Causality Test the hypotheses were tested using Eviews. The study found that there is a causal negative relationship between wages, the number of pre-paid electricity meters, fines imposed on violators, and the number of participants on the loss of electricity. While there was no causal relationship between the price of electricity, the unemployment rate, the rate of education, and spending on maintenance on the loss of electricity.
Highlights
The electricity sector is one of the most important elements of the infrastructure that attracts investment and social welfare
It is worth mentioning that 99.9% of the households in Palestine are connected to the public electricity network, 58.3% of the households use the normal meter, and 41.7% of households use a pre-paid meter (Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, 2015)
The results show that there is a causal relationship between the value of fines imposed on each case of theft from the electricity grid, and the number of pre-paid meters on the one hand, and the loss of electricity on the other hand at the level of α=0.05, Where Prob. (Fineperviolent)
Summary
The electricity sector is one of the most important elements of the infrastructure that attracts investment and social welfare. Palestine imported 91.8% of its electricity from Israel, while it imported 0.91% from Jordan, 1% from Egypt, and the Palestinian power station produced 6% electricity in Palestine (Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, 2017). According to the data of the Palestinian energy balance in the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) 2016, the domestic sector uses 59.6% of the electricity imported and produced in Palestine, while the industrial sector consumes 11.6% and the services sector 24.7%. It is worth mentioning that 99.9% of the households in Palestine are connected to the public electricity network, 58.3% of the households use the normal meter, and 41.7% of households use a pre-paid meter (Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, 2015). Due to the difficulty of studying the loss of electricity in all areas of Palestine, the determinants of the loss of electricity will be studied in the governorate of Ramallah and Al-Bireh, as it is the economic capital of Palestine, a gathering of ministries and state institutions, and its average location among governorates
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