Much has been made of Estonia having a high tech virtual government I’d. So many high tech start ups have come from Estonia, I’m a bit stunned that they have big electricity distribution problems.
i dunno, if you follow the link to <a href="https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/EG.ELC.LOSS.ZS?end=2024&most_recent_value_desc=true&start=2002" rel="nofollow">https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/EG.ELC.LOSS.ZS?end=2024... you see Estonia has high distribution losses?
> Albania, Argentina, Bangladesh, Brazil, Estonia, India, Kenya, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Uganda, and Venezuela
Even if Estonia does have stated electricity distribution loss, it still looks so way out of place in this group of countries by so many criteria. I wonder why not pick Egypt or Libya given that they have the same distribution loss.
Edit: this could be the reason - when you click on "Map" above the graph, for some reason Estonia is one of the blue countries shown on the map. Argentina, Brazil, and Kenya are there too (but not others).
Interestingly, this page seems to contain data only until year 2014, but the graph next to Estonia in the grandparent link does show an increase on the right side. Maybe Estonia did indeed experience some changes in overall distribution loss in recent years?
Up from about 6% in 2015-2020 according to the World Bank: <a href="https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/EG.ELC.LOSS.ZS?locations=EE" rel="nofollow">https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/EG.ELC.LOSS.ZS?location...
But at 2.9% according to Eesti's electricity supplier: <a href="https://www.elering.ee/en/electricity-consumption-and-generation" rel="nofollow">https://www.elering.ee/en/electricity-consumption-and-genera...
"In 2024, losses accounted for 2.9% of the total amount of electricity supplied to the transmission system." What does it all mean, who knows.
Elering reports only their part, the very high voltage transmission losses. Then there are the distribution losses on the local level are they're about 4%.
zeristor · · focus · HN ↗
Much has been made of Estonia having a high tech virtual government I’d. So many high tech start ups have come from Estonia, I’m a bit stunned that they have big electricity distribution problems.
skeletal88 · · focus · HN ↗
We do not have issues with electricity here or planned power cuts or whatever else.
I would like to see where this professor got his data for losses from. Maybe his data is flawed.
croisillon · · focus · HN ↗
rpozarickij · · focus · HN ↗
Even if Estonia does have stated electricity distribution loss, it still looks so way out of place in this group of countries by so many criteria. I wonder why not pick Egypt or Libya given that they have the same distribution loss.
Edit: this could be the reason - when you click on "Map" above the graph, for some reason Estonia is one of the blue countries shown on the map. Argentina, Brazil, and Kenya are there too (but not others).
skeletal88 · · focus · HN ↗
'kaod' is losses, this table shows losses from bruto production.
Either someone has been sending wrong data to the world bank or there is some issue with interpreting them before importing to world bank.
rpozarickij · · focus · HN ↗
card_zero · · focus · HN ↗
But at 2.9% according to Eesti's electricity supplier: <a href="https://www.elering.ee/en/electricity-consumption-and-generation" rel="nofollow">https://www.elering.ee/en/electricity-consumption-and-genera...
"In 2024, losses accounted for 2.9% of the total amount of electricity supplied to the transmission system." What does it all mean, who knows.
lrasinen · · focus · HN ↗
<a href="https://www.ceer.eu/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/3rd-CEER-Report-on-Power-Losses.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://www.ceer.eu/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/3rd-CEER-Repo...