The rains cause standstill in Delhi-NCR, as almost entire Gurugram suffered from blackouts lasting upto 18 hours in some areas on Friday after heavy rains resulted in widescale faults in overhead and underground feeders, transformers and at the two 220 kV substations which supplies power to majority of the urban area.

The large-scale outage that had started from 4am. Power supply in parts of Ardee City in Sector -52 that arose from underground cable fault and in Sector-23A (east zone) which was due to explosion in a transformer followed by fire could not be restored even till 9pm.

According to discom officials, faults developed in the two 220kV substations of Haryana Vidyut Prasaran Nigam Limited (HVPNL) at Badshahpur and Sector 72.

HVPNL officials said that the 220kV transmission line connecting the Sector-72 and Sector-20 substations had malfunctioned after the rain which took more than three hours for the power supply to restore.

Outages at the two substations resulted in more than ten 66kV substations not getting power supply.

After supply from the two substations was restored slowly between 7.30am to 8am, Dakshin Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam Limited officials had to deal with faults in the majority of the 11kV feeders to restore supply, as reported by HindustanTimes.

Chaitali Mandhotra, representative of Adree City RWA, said that they had been repeatedly requesting DHBVN officials to change the old cables.