Many dwellings connect illegally to the grid, referred to as power theft, or connect informally through someone with a legal connection. The latter is not considered theft and is thus not illegal in many countries, because the electricity consumed is metered and billed through the legal connection. The concern with this approach, in addition to safety, is that the user with the informal connection may pay an excessive unregulated price for an unsatisfactory service and relies on the goodwill of the unregulated provider (Maurer and Nonay, 2009).