GURUGRAM: Power call for within the city reached a report high of 288.7 lakh gadgets (approximately 1,150MW) on Tuesday, breaching the former report of 288 lakh gadgets on June 5 remaining year.
According to officers from Dakshin Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam (DHBVN), the spurt is because of upward thrust in temperatures and new connections this year. The call for is expected to leap to 325 lakh gadgets according to day in June. Power call for in Delhi lately stands at 6,200 MW.
“There are two reasons for this building up in call for,” stated KC Aggarwal, superintendent engineer, new Gurugram circle. “Firstly, the temperatures have soared significantly. People are naturally working their ACs at 16 degrees Celsius, consuming more chronic. However, we advise shoppers to set the ACs above 20 degrees Celsius, which also cools the room significantly. Secondly, the selection of shoppers has higher and that is being reflected within the call for. We are expecting the facility call for to reach 325 lakh gadgets according to day in June, which is extraordinary in Gurugram’s history.”
A complete of 20,000 new connections had been established in Gurugram this year, taking the overall selection of shoppers to almost 5 lakh. However, with the upward thrust in call for, chronic outages and fluctuations have also higher around the city. According to DHBVN officers, Gurugram receives more chronic than it calls for but chronic losses on the local degree is causing this problem.
TOI has been receiving lawsuits about frequent blackouts from miffed residents. Even on Wednesday, residents from Sushant Lok 1 and DLF 1, sectors 22, 23A, Sector 57 complained concerning the chronic situation. On Monday, Ardee City residents stated that a middle of the night outage had left them sleepless.
Gurugram, a power-surplus city, receives virtually uninterrupted supply from transmission company Haryana Vidyut Prasaran Nigam (HVPN) which is powered by the northern grid and supplies as much as 2210.four mega volt ampere (MVA) to the Gurugram circle. Transmission firms use MVA rating for the ‘apparent chronic’, together with ‘wattless chronic’, equipped to discoms which in flip distribute chronic among shoppers. However, there are losses all the way through distribution because of inaccurate networks or transformers or overhead cables, which is why chronic outages are frequent within the city.
Blaming the facility outages on local faults, Aggarwal stated, “All the facility shutdowns occur on the local degree. We are very concerned concerning the situation because we receive reviews of these shutdowns, too.”
According to DHBVN officers, they've been running to bolster the facility infrastructure. The city’s chronic network has just about 900 feeders across seven subdivisions which can be consolidated into four divisions which can be assigned to two circles — circle 1 (previous Gurugram) and circle 2 (new Gurugram). A feeder needs to be run on an optimal degree of 250 Amperes, which may be its threshold.
Once a feeder shows signs that the facility call for is exceeding the brink degree, it's bifurcated, because of this an additional line is established from the substation from the place the feeder emanates to distribute chronic within the space. This leads to equitable distribution of chronic and avoids breakdowns. “This year, we bifurcated just about 50 feeders so that breakdowns don’t happen,” a discom authentic stated.
Aggarwal stated, “We have scaled up our efforts. We are assembly RWA members from quite a lot of neighbourhoods and getting inputs about issues they're dealing with. This means, we will be able to fix loopholes so that shoppers don’t undergo. On Tuesday, too, our body of workers met RWA members from DLF 1, Sushant Lok 1, sectors 22, 23, etc.”
According to officers from Dakshin Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam (DHBVN), the spurt is because of upward thrust in temperatures and new connections this year. The call for is expected to leap to 325 lakh gadgets according to day in June. Power call for in Delhi lately stands at 6,200 MW.
“There are two reasons for this building up in call for,” stated KC Aggarwal, superintendent engineer, new Gurugram circle. “Firstly, the temperatures have soared significantly. People are naturally working their ACs at 16 degrees Celsius, consuming more chronic. However, we advise shoppers to set the ACs above 20 degrees Celsius, which also cools the room significantly. Secondly, the selection of shoppers has higher and that is being reflected within the call for. We are expecting the facility call for to reach 325 lakh gadgets according to day in June, which is extraordinary in Gurugram’s history.”
A complete of 20,000 new connections had been established in Gurugram this year, taking the overall selection of shoppers to almost 5 lakh. However, with the upward thrust in call for, chronic outages and fluctuations have also higher around the city. According to DHBVN officers, Gurugram receives more chronic than it calls for but chronic losses on the local degree is causing this problem.
TOI has been receiving lawsuits about frequent blackouts from miffed residents. Even on Wednesday, residents from Sushant Lok 1 and DLF 1, sectors 22, 23A, Sector 57 complained concerning the chronic situation. On Monday, Ardee City residents stated that a middle of the night outage had left them sleepless.
Gurugram, a power-surplus city, receives virtually uninterrupted supply from transmission company Haryana Vidyut Prasaran Nigam (HVPN) which is powered by the northern grid and supplies as much as 2210.four mega volt ampere (MVA) to the Gurugram circle. Transmission firms use MVA rating for the ‘apparent chronic’, together with ‘wattless chronic’, equipped to discoms which in flip distribute chronic among shoppers. However, there are losses all the way through distribution because of inaccurate networks or transformers or overhead cables, which is why chronic outages are frequent within the city.
Blaming the facility outages on local faults, Aggarwal stated, “All the facility shutdowns occur on the local degree. We are very concerned concerning the situation because we receive reviews of these shutdowns, too.”
According to DHBVN officers, they've been running to bolster the facility infrastructure. The city’s chronic network has just about 900 feeders across seven subdivisions which can be consolidated into four divisions which can be assigned to two circles — circle 1 (previous Gurugram) and circle 2 (new Gurugram). A feeder needs to be run on an optimal degree of 250 Amperes, which may be its threshold.
Once a feeder shows signs that the facility call for is exceeding the brink degree, it's bifurcated, because of this an additional line is established from the substation from the place the feeder emanates to distribute chronic within the space. This leads to equitable distribution of chronic and avoids breakdowns. “This year, we bifurcated just about 50 feeders so that breakdowns don’t happen,” a discom authentic stated.
Aggarwal stated, “We have scaled up our efforts. We are assembly RWA members from quite a lot of neighbourhoods and getting inputs about issues they're dealing with. This means, we will be able to fix loopholes so that shoppers don’t undergo. On Tuesday, too, our body of workers met RWA members from DLF 1, Sushant Lok 1, sectors 22, 23, etc.”
Discom asks residents to keep ACs at 20 degrees as power demand reaches record high in Gurugram
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