Gurugram’s power demands clock season’s highest

The Gurugram Circle 2 of Dakshin Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam (DHBVN) recorded the season’s highest energy consumption at 322.75 lakh items on Thursday. It’s a spike of over 14.05% from the 283 lakh items consumed the identical day (June 12) final yr.

With the mercury ranges hovering throughout the State over the previous few days, the DHBVN’s Delhi zone comprising Faridabad, Palwal, Gurugram, Narnaul and Rewari recorded consumption of 1024.73 lakh items, breaching the 1,000-mark for the primary time this season, on Thursday. This is a rise of 4.58%, over 979.86 lakh items the day before today.

The DHBVN’s Hisar Zone comprising Hisar, Jind, Sirsa, Fatehabad and Bhiwani consumed 503.34 lakh items on Thursday with a rise of 1.29% over 496.94 lakh items the day before today.

DHBVB spokesperson Sanjay Chugh stated regardless of the spike in energy demand, the company had equipped energy for 23.83 hours and 23.5 hours to Gurugram Circle 2 and 1 city areas respectively. The provision to the commercial areas of Gurugram had been for 23.5 hours on a mean for each circles.

Nevertheless, frequent outages had been reported from components of Gurugram with residents taking to social media to precise their frustration.

“@DHBVNL Thanks for 3 minutes of electrical energy which you supplied on this harsh summer time after an extended energy reduce of greater than 2.5 hours earlier than imposing one other energy reduce in DLF part 3, Gurugram. It was an excessive amount of of a kindness from Haryana Electrical energy Board. 1 minute was sufficient. (sic),” learn a publish by Rajesh Singh on X.

One more publish by Divya stated: “The worst half about summers in Gurgaon? The electrical energy board @DHBVNL appears to enter deep sleep simply whenever you name with a grievance – clearly unbothered by the truth that you might be spending a sleepless night time in insufferable warmth with energy reduce, solely to get up early for work tomm (sic).”

Mr. Chugh stated the Residents’ Welfare Associations had been duly knowledgeable in case of scheduled energy cuts to hold out any restore work, however small length outages had been typically brought on resulting from surprising faults in feeder traces or transformers resulting from overload and extreme warmth.