"If the new government is to succeed in addressing runaway electricity demand, it needs to draw lessons from the failures of the last administration. In case we had forgotten the challenges Myanmar is facing in meeting electricity demand, the past few weeks have provided a timely reminder. Weeks of regular blackouts at the height of summer have made life uncomfortable for millions. The new government has not helped the situation. Its communication on power supply has been non-existent; reading the state newspapers you could be forgiven for thinking nothing was amiss. Instead, electricity users have been told repeatedly through Facebook that the outages are due to system failures. It may be the weather, creaking infrastructure or simply an inability to meet demand, but we?ve been left in the dark. A government that came to office promising accountability and transparency has failed to uphold these same standards. But, as we explore elsewhere in this issue, those with a power supply ? working or not ? should count themselves lucky..."