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Electricity Theft Is Rampant, but Delhi Found a Fix
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Electricity Theft Is Rampant, but Delhi Found a Fix It’s disheartening how much power gets generated and then promptly lost as it travels through grid networks. Th is leaking of electricity happens when it vanishes as heat as w ell as whe n it is pilfered by thieves and nonpaying customers.
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- It’s disheartening how much power gets generated and then promptly lost as it travels through grid networks.
- Th is leaking of electricity happens when it vanishes as heat as w ell as whe n it is pilfered by thieves and nonpaying customers.
- More than half of the countries that track these metrics lost at least 10 percent of the ir electricity in 2023, according to the World Bank.
- Losses topped 20 percent for 24 of those nations.
- Two countries lost more than half of what they generated .
- With numbers this high, c utting down on losses makes sense .
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