Indians Steal Power

About 1/3 of the 174 gigawatts of electricity generated in India annually is either stolen by consumers or gets dissipated by the conductors and transmission equipment that form the distribution grid. That’s more than any other nation. Consumers string homemade wire hooks over power cables outside to take power.

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source: BusinessWeek 

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