The article presents the results of an analysis of existing approaches to taking into account additional load losses of active power in network elements with a voltage of 0.38 kV. There are many approaches to determining additional electricity losses, but most authors agree that the values of these losses are significant and must be taken into account in the structure of load electricity losses. It is noted that inactive components of total power are factors that negatively affect the efficiency of energy transmission, causing additional losses of active power. The search for technical solutions that lead, if possible, to the elimination of these factors or reduce their effects to a minimum, can ideally contribute to the minimum value of load losses caused by the flow of only useful active power.