How the Grid Loses Half Its Power — and How Delhi Fixed It

Logosofia no Dia a Dia · Oct 12, 2026 · 21m

Losses scale with the square of current, which is why the grid runs at high voltage and why a crackling wire is money on fire. But the World Bank's loss indicator bundles physics with pilferage — so a country's grid ranking is partly engineering, partly governance. This episode unpacks the real numbers: Singapore at 0.23 percent, the US around six, the UK near ten, Iraq at 59. Then the case study: how Delhi cut losses from over 52 percent in 2002 to roughly 5.5 percent today, using capacitor banks, static meters, feeder-level analytics, and special courts that actually prosecuted theft. Key…