Delhi Cut Electricity Loss from 50 to 5 Percent
Delhi successfully reduced its electricity distribution losses from 50 percent to 5 percent over several years. The transformation addressed chronic power outages and poor infrastructure that plagued the city in the early 2000s.
Why it matters
This serves as a significant case study for developing nations on how infrastructure modernization and utility reform can stabilize essential public services.
It slashed electricity losses from 50 to 5 percent
Delhi brilliantly illuminates Humayun's Tomb on 14 August 2026, on the eve of India’s Independence Day.
It’s 6 a.m. on a cold January morning in 2002 in New Delhi. It’s still dark outside, and I’m in the kitchen preparing breakfast, packing lunches, and getting my two children ready to catch the school bus when, for the third time in a week, the power goes out. No lights, no mixer to finish my daughter’s puttu —her favorite rice dish—no kettle, no toaster. The bathroom is dark, and the kids are upset.
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