Power cut

Mini Shaji Thomas describing how Delhi cut its power loss from 50 to 5 percent.

This has been one of the most significant achievements for India in the last two decades. We wouldn’t have seen EV on Indian roads without this. India’s bar on the above graph looks incredible.

However, this had an interesting side effect. This comment by groos on Hacker News.

The effort to reduce electricity theft has had an interesting side effect. One of the ways to prevent theft is to insulate the power lines going into neighborhoods. This also makes them safe for monkeys to use as ‘roads’ with the result that roving gangs of monkeys move from neighborhood to neighborhood with ease and also have access to the upper floor of apartment buildings because of the proximity of the power lines. I saw this in person a few years ago.