Countrywide eight-hour daily loadshedding would continue until January 25 due to shortage of oil and gas and canal closure for maintenance.
“The power availability shall by and large remain at the current level till January 25 when enhanced releases form Mangla and Tarbela dams are expected”
-Caretaker Minister for Water and Power Tariq Hameed
Water and Power Development Authority (WAPDA) has failed to come up with an ingenius responce to the worst energy crises of Pakistan. Current loadshedding has badly affected households, industrialists and businesses.
No new project is expected to start generation soon, infact not even a single mega watt has been added to the energy production capacity of the country in the last decade.
Country was facing a shortage of about 3,000MW because of a reduction in hydel power generation, but an additional burden of 1,500MW emerged in recent days, taking total shortage to over 4,000MW
The situation could worsen over the next few days owing to the lack of fuel stock of at least five independent power producers (IPPs).