High-tension job: They walk the sky to fix power cables for new sub-station in Gurgaon

The work is part of HVPN’s plan to upgrade its transmission network to overcome power shortages and outages. The company plans to set up four new sub-stations in Sectors 4, 20, 33 and 57.

The men are fixing power cables for a new 220-kV sub-station in Sector-20 that will serve the Udyog Vihar area, where HPVN has faced criticism for frequent loadshedding and outages.

Officials said transmission lines for the other three sub-stations will be completed by the end of August. While the sub-station at Sector-4 will be of 66 kV, the ones at sectors 33 and 57 will be of 220 kV each.

The four sub-stations will be connected via high-tension cables to the 400-kV multi-circuit tower in Sector-72.

Besides, HVPN is planning to upgrade sub-stations at Pataudi, Pachgaon and Farooq Nagar.

The demand for power in Gurgaon is rising by 15-17 per cent every year. In the first week of June this year, the demand crossed 1,650 MV while the existing infrastructure can only handle a load of about 1,700 MV, lending urgency to the task of power infrastructure upgradation. Gurgaon’s power demand is likely to cross 1,900 MV by 2015.