Only Smart Grid can save Gurugram from power crisis

The Smart Grid project, a system of underground infrastructure maintained remotely through technology, is being touted as the solution to Gurugram’s long-standing power woes. Expected to be ready by 2022, the Smart Grid will curb theft and technical faults to save 120-150 MW electricity in the city daily, said officials of the power distribution agency, Dakshin Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam, which is managing the project. Unlike the present distribution system, the Smart Grid project will reduce technical faults, short circuit and pilferage. The Smart Grid project was conceived by the Haryana government in 2011-12 with an aim to improve the electricity distribution system.