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In 2014, a rural home in India had power for 12.5 hours a day on average. In 2025, it has 22.6 hours. Urban homes: 23.4. That is 1.8x the hours of power. Turn it around: the average village home went from 11.5 hours a day without electricity to 1.4 hours. The dark stretch got cut 8x over. That is the 2nd chart. The 1st plot is the official record, every year since 1985-86. I made this from the full CEA table. The bottom line is the share of electricity demand India could not meet. For 28 straight years it never fell below 5.9%. - It was 11.5% in 1996-97 and 11.1% in 2008-09. - In 2012-13 it was 8.7%. - Then: 4.2%, 2.1%, 0.7%. - In 2024-25 it was 0.1%. - In the 1st 9 months of 2025-26 it was 0.03%. - Peak shortage in 2024-25: 0.0%. The top line is the peak demand the grid met each year. - 24 GW in 1985-86. - 130 GW in 2013-14. - 250 GW in 2024-25. - It rose every single year. - On 21 May 2026 the grid met 270.8 GW, the all-time record. Electricity supplied went from 960 billion units in 2013-14 to 1,622 billion units in 2023-24. Installed generation capacity went from 249 GW in 2014 to 475 GW by March 2025. From 1985-86 to 2013-14, 28 years, India added 106 GW to the peak demand its grid could meet. In the next 11 years it added 120 GW. And the shortage went from 4.2% to 0.1%. Bharat is rising. 🙏🙏 Sources: CEA All-India Power Supply Position (Table 8, Growth of Electricity Sector in India 1947-2025); Ministry of Power Annual Report 2025-26; PIB power supply reviews (Feb and Jun 2025); 270.8 GW from the Minister's statement in Parliament. The 2014 hours figure is from independent surveys and the 2025 hours from discom feeder data on the National Power Portal, both as stated by the Ministry.

The current psyop is the thing to keep you arguing. It’s been almost seven years of this for me. Starting with a rapidly formed and extensive network of people who had the moral and intellectual sense to perceive the evil and folly of lockdowns, the first cut was the minority who mistakenly thought that vaccines were the way out. Then it was the morons who didn’t realise that Zelensky was a crappy actor sponsored by a corrupt banker. Then it was all the people who thought October 7 was an exception to the bankers’ wars rule, from both “sides”, really. MAGA/MAHA persuaded a few. Good riddance. The Iran conflict had no impact on the remainder. What I’m left with is a wonderful international network of uncommonly smart and unsurprisingly successful people, but it’s quite a small one.