By Benoit Dome / Published on Wed, 2008-06-04 16:18
Seen rising up the side of this home’s wall is the access point of illegal power into this dwelling – next door is the well that is its <> and the surrounding dwellings’ water supply. The homes seen here are all powered by illegally access energy, as far as the eye could see.
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By Benoit Dome / Published on Wed, 2008-06-04 13:08
Access to electricity illegally is often taken from the past legal distribution point that can be up to 1000m away from the first household constituting the so-called “non-technical” losses. The orange cable seen in this photo is the “final distribution” that is open to both the elements and to passing pedestrians, horse and carts and motor vehicles. Accidents caused by these illegal connections mostly go unreported because of the illegality of the electricity sourcing.
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By Sergio Ferreira / Published on Tue, 2007-07-10 17:10
That the community is informal does not however mean that there is no electricity grid in the area. Brazilian law number 10.438, which went into effect in April 2002, mandates that utilities cover 100 per cent of their service area. ‘The overhead lines are there, but nobody pays for a connection’, explains Garcia.
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