The Dakshin Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam (DHBVN) is laying a community of 220 new 11kV feeders throughout Gurugram to strengthen its energy infrastructure, enhance provide high quality for home and industrial customers, and meet town’s rising electrical energy demand, officers stated on Monday.
In keeping with officers, 133 feeders are being put in or expanded in Circle-I, which covers the Previous Gurugram space, new sectors alongside Dwarka Expressway, and Manesar, town’s fundamental industrial hub. Eighty-seven feeders are being laid or expanded in Circle-II, which incorporates Sushant Lok, MG Highway, South Metropolis I and II, Golf Course Highway, Golf Course Extension Highway, Sohna elevated highway, and Tauru in Nuh. At current, Circle-I has 517 feeders, whereas Circle-II has 711, with over 90% working on 11kV, officers added.
The feeder-laying work in city and densely populated areas dealing with overloading points is focused for completion by March–April 2026, whereas the remaining work throughout different zones is anticipated to be accomplished by the tip of 2026, officers stated.
DHBVN managing director Ashok Kumar Garg, who additionally serves as Hisar divisional commissioner, presided over a evaluation assembly with officers and contractors in Gurugram on Monday to evaluate the infrastructure enlargement venture. Garg stated instructions had been issued to make sure well timed completion of all feeder-laying work. “Inspection must be carried out of all of the supplies to make sure they’re of ordinary high quality. They need to be commissioned as per their scheduled timeline in order that outage points on account of overloading points may very well be mitigated. Apart from, new growing areas are additionally lined correctly by an 11kV and 33kV feeder community to deal with the longer term wants,” Garg stated.
Officers stated that overloading in a number of feeders throughout previous and new Gurugram prompted the enlargement. “We’ve already bifurcated a number of feeders within the residential areas of town on conflict footing this 12 months’s summer time as they had been dealing with overloading points which was triggering outages. The identical step was required for your entire metropolis,” a senior DHBVN official posted in Gurugram stated. He added that industrial enlargement in Manesar and large-scale residential initiatives in Sohna and alongside Dwarka Expressway have pushed the necessity for an upgraded community. “Factories are arising in Manesar. Present entities have expanded their manufacturing capability within the post-Covid time… These calls for may very well be solely met with feeder community enlargement,” he stated.
Apart from Gurugram, DHBVN is increasing feeder networks throughout a number of districts — 101 in Faridabad, 270 in Rewari, 135 in Hisar, 218 in Sirsa, 145 in Jind, 180 in Bhiwani, and 61 in Charkhi Dadri. Officers stated Gurugram’s peak load crossed 2,500 MW this 12 months and is anticipated to climb additional with metro rail enlargement and concrete growth.
