The utility has been in thrall to trade unions, so it is over-manned.
As in most states, Andhra Pradesh's electricity utility has been ensnared in fiscal and political vice.
The French government, which owns the utility, has been concerned about Vivendi Environnement's being acquired by foreign owners.
Eskom, the state-owned utility, has been encouraging mining firms to limit production to avoid power cuts.
In Bangalore, the top executive of a government-owned electricity utility has been using a webcam in his office.
The utility has been eager to restore service to bring in power from New England to help meet the summer's high demands for air-conditioning.
Some analysts say the German-owned British utility has been constantly stymied by uncooperative employees and the rampant corruption that pervades some Indonesian business.
Since the Northeast blackout in August this year, the utility has been getting electricity through the disputed cable virtually every day, under an emergency federal ruling that the bill would make permanent.
And the utility has been incurring large fuel costs as it makes up for capacity lost at Fukushima Daiichi, as well as two other nuclear power plants that have been shut down since the quake.
The government's plan, easier to push through now that TEPCO, the biggest utility, has been brought low by its handling of the Fukushima fiasco, is to split generation and transmission, with the residential electricity market open to new competition.
On top of these descriptors, an adaptive framework, capable of optimizing the utility has been designed.
