Following up on the critically important smart power grid theme … I found the following overview on the woeful current state of India’s electricity grid on Smart Grid News.

The above was published roughly a year ago, but the overall situation hasn’t seen a dramatic shift in that span … In fact, the same site’s newsletter reported in its September coverage of the International Smart Grid Summit in Washington D.C. that India loses an eye-popping 50% of its generated power due to technical issues linked to its outdated transmission infrastructure. See the blurb here.

Convincing a country starved for power to go for renewable sources is challenging enough as it is without massive waste being part of the economic model. The good news is that the county stands to enjoy massive upside from introducing smart grid technologies available today.

(Image courtesy of CSIRO Australia.)