Three billion units of power wasted in one year

Sanjay Dutta,TNN | Jul 5, 2015, 01.53 AM IST

 

It is the height of paradox for a country where blackouts are more a norm than exception. Over 3 billion units of electricity, or a day's national consumption, were wasted in 2014-15 as congestion in the transmission highways blocked trading between surplus and deficit regions.