Throughout Northern California literally thousands of electric service meters are being by-passed causing serving utilities to lose millions of dollars. Utility losses caused by theft is built into the rate base as non-technical losses. These losses increase the cost of service as well as cost of electricity to rate payers. Using proactive analytics from smart meter data, this type of fraud can be quickly identified and mediated. These slides show some common methods power is being diverted. Smart meters do have tamper alerts to notify the utility when a meter is pulled from the socket, but in these cases the meter was not removed from socket and tamper alerts were not tripped.