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How Delhi cut electricity loss from 50 to 5 percent

592 points · 336 comments · rbanffy

  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. zeristor · · focus · HN ↗
        I did query ChatGPT and it seemingly wrong headedly suggested that Estonia had closed lots of Oil Shale power which it did have, I am not too up on this.

        I did push back hard saying that that's not the same as what the article talked about at all.

        The thing is if the World Bank is making statistics people are basing decisions on this is an issue.

        "Oh, you sweet summer child"

        1. skeletal88 · · focus · HN ↗
          Yes, most of the oil shale power plants are closed, some even demolished.

          The existing ones are used only when electricity prices are veey high.

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