# Electricity is now holding back growth across the global economy

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Podcast: [Zero: The Climate Race](https://stenobird.com/podcast/zero-the-climate-race-5454543)
Published: 2026-02-05T05:00:00+00:00
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## Resource

Major economies around the world are grappling with electricity grids under stress from equipment bottlenecks and workforce shortages. What can be done to solve it? This week on Zero , Akshat Rathi talks with Manoj Sinha, CEO of Husk Power Systems, about distributed energy resources and their potential to bring electricity to where it is needed most — from energy-poor regions in the Global South, to energy-hungry data centres in rich countries. Bottlenecks series: Electricity Is Now Holding Back Growth Across the Global Economy AI-Driven Demand for Gas Turbines Risks a New Energy Crunch The Fix for Solar Power Blackouts Is Already Here There Aren’t Enough Engineers to Meet World’s Growing Hunger for Power The One Device Throttling the World’s Electrified Future Other related stories Renewables Are Cheap. Why Aren’t People Seeing Their Bills Fall? Biggest Mini-Grid Firm Seeks $400 Million, Plans Revenue Surge Q&A: Got a question for Akshat and the Bloomberg Green team that you'd like to hear answered on Zero? Email us at zeropod@bloomberg.net   Zero is a production of Bloomberg Green . Our producer is Oscar Boyd. Special thanks to Marilen Martin Somer Saadi, Mohsis Andam, Laura Millan and Sharon Chen. Thoughts or suggestions? Email us at zeropod@bloomberg.net. For more coverage of climate change and solutions, visit https://www.bloomberg.com/green . See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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