India, May 27 -- The Haryana Vidyut Prasaran Nigam Limited (HVPNL) has undertaken the upgradation and augmentation of six major substations in Gurugram and Manesar to prevent outages and meet growing power demand over the next decade, officials said on Monday.

The move comes after repeated power outages during peak summer last year due to overloading at several substations, discom officials said. The six substations being upgraded include the 400kV Daulatabad substation, 66kV units in sectors 35, 47, and Badshahpur in Gurugram; and 66kV and 220kV substations in Sector 2 and the Transport Hub in IMT Manesar, they added.

"As soon as the load on any equipment reaches 80% of its capacity, it must be upgraded, or else it causes overloading,"...