moke engulfed the sub-station even as Lucknow Electricity Supply Administration (Lesa) had no clue on how to deal with the situation. Sanjay Sharma, in-charge of the sub-station said that the incident happened at around 6.45 pm when they were at a convention.

The need for the substation is crucial,” Xcel spokesman Mark Stutz indicated in an e-mail. “We have been looking at a potential substation for more than a decade, due to annual growth in the Silverthorne area of 3 to 4 percent a year.

An electrical the substation is a subsidiary station of an electricity generation, transmission and distribution system where voltage is transformed from high to low or the reverse using transformers.