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How Delhi cut electricity loss from 50 to 5 percent

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  1. zeristor · · focus · HN ↗
    Estonia?!

    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.

    1. skeletal88 · · focus · HN ↗
      This is some kind of totally wrong reporting. Maybe some other country was meant, or the author mixed us up with Elbonia from Dilbert.

      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.

      1. croisillon · · focus · HN ↗
        i dunno, if you follow the link to <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;data.worldbank.org&#x2F;indicator&#x2F;EG.ELC.LOSS.ZS?end=2024&amp;most_recent_value_desc=true&amp;start=2002" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;data.worldbank.org&#x2F;indicator&#x2F;EG.ELC.LOSS.ZS?end=2024... you see Estonia has high distribution losses?
        1. rpozarickij · · focus · HN ↗
          &gt; 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 &quot;Map&quot; 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).

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