Unpaid electric bills undermine efforts to improve access: Study
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Mon, Dec 14 2020 16:51 IST |
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New Delhi, Dec 14 : Electric utilities in many developing countries often don t get fully paid by consumers for the power they supply.
A new study on Monday suggests that this has led to widespread outages and rationing of power. This poor electricity access may be a consequence of society treating electricity as a right rather than a commodity to be bought and sold.
More than a billion people worldwide lack access to reliable electricity, despite multilateral efforts across the globe that have poured resources into improving electricity access and reliability in order to spur economic growth.