State to pump Rs 1000 cr into power sector,

The government-owned transmission and distribution companies on Wednesday announced that they are going to pump in Rs 1,000 crore in Gurgaon to augment electricity infrastructure in the near future.
The discom, Dakshin Haryana Bijli Vitaran Nigam ( DHBVN), claimed that currently, the city is not experiencing any scheduled outages due to increased availability of power.
We are taking more steps to upgrade the power distribution infrastructure and improve the situation, said S S Yadav, chief engineer, Dakshin Haryana Bijli Vitaran Nigam, while addressing a conclave on Reducing hardship due to power cuts organized by the Independent Power Producers Associations (IPPAI) in the city on Wednesday.
He added that the discom and the transmission company, Haryana Vidyut Prasaran Nigam ( HVPN), have a tough task to meet the increasing power demands of the city.
Yadav added that initiatives are being taken to bring relief to consumers not just by adding to the generation capacity but also by investing substantially in the infrastructure.
Later in the day, a spokesperson of the discom said that 27 new substations having a total transmission capacity of 1600 mva are being added to the system. Out of this, 10 substations, including two of 220 KV and eight of 66 KV and 33 KV, have already been commissioned, the spokesperson said.
He added that with the completion of this short-term plan, under execution, the total capacity of the system at the levels of 66 KV and 33 KV would increase to 2292.5 mva against the expected demand of 1994 mva. Thus, there would be a surplus capacity of 298.5 mva, the official claimed.
The discom officials said that power consumption in Gurgaon has increased from 80 lakh units per day (five years ago) to 135 lakh units per day and it is likely to increase to 250 lakh units per day in the next five years.
The rapid urbanization and industrialization of Gurgaon have necessitated the creation of mammoth power transmission and distribution infrastructure. The power companies are fully aware of it and taking the base as current demand, pending connections and rate of growth of load as 15 per cent, they have envisaged this plan to strengthen the power transmission and distribution system in Gurgaon, officials said.
Meanwhile, the Haryana Electricity Regulatory Commission (HERC) chairman Bhaskar Chaterjee told a gathering at the IPPAI seminar that the future looks bright since the state has made remarkable progress in adding power to its grid. The way things are progressing, we can hope that in the next two years, Haryana will be self-sufficient with power, he hoped.
But it seems like that in the next two months, the power watchdog of the state, Haryana Electricity Regulatory Commission is likely to consider the proposal for another tariff hike.

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