Gurugram’s power demands clock season’s highest

The Gurugram Circle 2 of Dakshin Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam (DHBVN) recorded the season’s highest power consumption at 322.75 lakh units on Thursday. It is a spike of over 14.05% from the 283 lakh units consumed the same day (June 12) last year.

With the mercury levels soaring across the State over the past few days, the DHBVN’s Delhi zone comprising Faridabad, Palwal, Gurugram, Narnaul and Rewari recorded consumption of 1024.73 lakh units, breaching the 1,000-mark for the first time this season, on Thursday. This is an increase of 4.58%, over 979.86 lakh units the previous day.

The DHBVN’s Hisar Zone comprising Hisar, Jind, Sirsa, Fatehabad and Bhiwani consumed 503.34 lakh units on Thursday with an increase of 1.29% over 496.94 lakh units the previous day.

DHBVB spokesperson Sanjay Chugh said despite the spike in power demand, the corporation had supplied power for 23.83 hours and 23.5 hours to Gurugram Circle 2 and 1 urban areas respectively. The supply to the industrial areas of Gurugram had been for 23.5 hours on an average for both circles.

However, frequent outages were reported from parts of Gurugram with residents taking to social media to express their frustration.

“@DHBVNL Thank you for 3 minutes of electricity which you provided in this harsh summer after a long power cut of more than 2.5 hours before imposing another power cut in DLF phase 3, Gurugram. It was too much of a kindness from Haryana Electricity Board. 1 minute was enough. (sic),” read a post by Rajesh Singh on X.

Yet another post by Divya said: “The worst part about summers in Gurgaon? The electricity board @DHBVNL seems to go into deep sleep just when you call with a grievance - clearly unbothered by the fact that you are spending a sleepless night in unbearable heat with power cut, only to wake up early for work tomm (sic).”

Mr. Chugh said the Residents’ Welfare Associations were duly informed in case of scheduled power cuts to carry out any repair work, but small duration outages were sometimes caused due to unexpected faults in feeder lines or transformers due to overload and excessive heat.

Published - June 14, 2025 01:29 am IST