Tag: Electricity load shedding Pakistan

Basic Needs

Electricity Load shedding gone worse in Pakistan as the caretaker government took over the country

Now a days people of Pakistan specially Punjab are facing the worst electricity load shedding of history comprising more than 12 hours daily. This is due to the worst performance of previous government. They have done noting to solve the country’s biggest problem, which is shortage of electricity. Things were even better before the previous government of Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) and gone worse due to non payment of fuel to the stakeholders providing fuel to electricity generators. They kept taking the bills from consumers but not payed the cost of fuel, each month they were owing more than previous to fuel providers, circular dept increased, which resulted in partial or full closure of some powerhouses. As the PPP government […]

Infrastructure

Electricity load shedding situation brought under control says Minister for Water and Power

The Pakistani minister for water and power Naveed Qamar told the media last night that they have to some extent controlled the load shedding situation and the production is brought to 12400 Megawatts (MW) from the 9000 MW which was being produced before. By the way, does someone did not told minister that the production was down to just 7500 MW, same thing had caused the worst short fall of history. Minister Naveed Qamar also claimed that the production will be back to 14000 MW within next 48 hours. I personally doubt that, as about same is the requirement of country’s power requirement, considering the load shedding which had been there from long time without any pauses, you can tell […]

Basic Needs

Worst power load shedding of history brings people to the roads

Recently the worst power shortage and load shedding in response hit the country. The power requirement of country in these days is about 16500 Mega Watts (MW) but the production is down to all time low in recent times which is just 7500 MW. In response the electricity load shedding of hours is being observed all over the country. Most effected in recent times are the business people and industries, which are all shut down due to power outages. Common people who rely on power for their living are most affected and furious, hence loads of people have hit the roads once again to remind the current government of Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) about their unfulfilled promises of putting an […]

Inside Story

Karachi Electricity consumers suffer due to conflict between Sui Gas Company and KESC

Like the other epic problems of Karachi, another problem is of electric supply to the city. Load-shedding is there all over country but Karachi city in this regard in on whole new level. Since the Karachi Electric Supply Company (KESC) was privatized the electricity problems of city only increased. Its case of current owners of KESC not being able to keep their electricity power houses functional. On some places its lack of maintenance and on other its non timely payments of fuel, this all cause the electricity shortfalls and ultimately Karachi’s citizens pay the price in terms of power load-shedding and failures. Recently one such incident took place when Sui Sothern Gas Company (SSGC) cut the Gas supply to one […]

Finance

PEPCO unable to recover Rs 63 billion dues from last year

Pakistan Electric Power Company (PEPCO) was unable to the recover Rs 62.9 billion Rs last year against amounts which were billed to its consumers. This amount added to the circular dept and will have an impact on the electricity consumers who actually pay their dues regularly. Such unpaid dept contribute to the devalue an organization and such thing happened in financial year 2010-2o11. PEPCO was able to make some old recoveries but this Rs 63 billion of un-recovered amount is finally going to impact the household consumers of electricity, who are already mostly paying their bills regularly. Circular Dept and line losses are the biggest problems of PEPCO which ultimately contribute to the increasing load-shedding which electricity consumers have to […]