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How Delhi cut electricity loss from 50 to 5 percent

592 points · 336 comments · rbanffy

  1. tarun_anand · · focus · HN ↗
    The next 25 years will see another revolution, the solar residential (and hopefully commercial one) <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pmsuryaghar.gov.in&#x2F;#&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pmsuryaghar.gov.in&#x2F;#&#x2F;

    The government is actively encouraging solar residential and net metering is on...

    Since the topic is linked to Delhi..

    In dino, garche dakkan mein hain kadre sukhan bahut,

    Kaun jaye Zauq, par dilli ki galiya chodd ke

    The poet acknowledges that the Deccan region (South India) currently offers better patronage and respect for poets than the declining Delhi. However, he rhetorically asks who could possibly bear to leave Delhi....

    1. downrightmike · · focus · HN ↗
      The power companies will just say that if they let everyone do that, it will kill line technicians and boom, no one gets solar. Happening in the USA today
      1. dyauspitr · · focus · HN ↗
        Transfer panels aren’t all that expensive and required by code.
        1. downrightmike · · focus · HN ↗
          Doesn&#x27;t mean they&#x27;ll let them be used or connected to the grid. Even if you do that in the USA they charge you the same rate for power from your panels as they do off the grid. You have to have an inspector come out just to get off of that default plan even though it is just a computer account update.
    2. pm90 · · focus · HN ↗
      Personally a Ghalib fan myself but love that despite their rivalry they both loved dilli to the end.
      1. tarun_anand · · focus · HN ↗
        I am a Ghalib fan too, and like Mozart and Salieri this had its own popular culture.

        A few years back the electricity clean up reached the famous Ghalib Haveli as well

        <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.indiatoday.in&#x2F;india&#x2F;story&#x2F;historic-ghalib-ki-haveli-to-get-adequate-enchanting-lighting-arrangements-ahead-of-g-20-2335313-2023-02-16" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.indiatoday.in&#x2F;india&#x2F;story&#x2F;historic-ghalib-ki-hav...

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