The power planners are now doing such load shedding for more than four years, says an official. Dawn/File
LAHORE: With the monsoon getting delayed, the country continues to sizzle under the scorching sun and suffer agonising loadshedding after a hiatus of a few years, as power shortfall stubbornly persists at over 8,000 megawatts generation of 19,000MW against the peak demand of 27,000MW, claims a Pakistan Electric Power Company (Pepco) official.
According to the power planners, re-gasified liquefied natural gas plants of over 3,600MW were producing less than half of the total generation because of reduced gas supplies, and the hydel contribution fluctuated between (average) 4,600MW and 5,200MW (peak hours when Ghazi Barotha Hydropower Project starts generation) because of water shortage and low dam levels.
Pakistan s energy shortfall refuses to abate amid scorching heat, load-shedding
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Pakistan s energy shortfall refuses to abate
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Earlier, NAB had filed an interim reference in the Karkey case in 2014. Reuters/File
ISLAMABAD: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) on Monday filed a supplementary reference in the Turkish rental power plant case, nominating former managing director of Pakistan Electric Power Company (Pepco) Rasul Khan Mahsud for allegedly taking $10,000 in bribe from the company.
The other accused in the Karkey reference are former prime minister Raja Pervaiz Ashraf, former federal secretary Ismail Qureshi, former MDs of Pepco Fazal Ahmed Khan and Tahir Basharat Cheema, former MDs of Private Power Infrastructure Board (PPIB) Fayyaz Elahi and N.A. Zuberi, former directors of Pepco and PPIB and former chief executive officer of Lakhra Power Plant Hafeezur Rehman.