According to the Pakistan Electric Power Company (PepCo), electricity deficit in the country hit a 3,600MW on Wednesday, where as the demand is around 10,000MW, and thus necessitating an eight-hour nationwide loadshedding.
Hydel-power generation hit an all-time low at 1,300MW against a peak summer generation of 6,600MW. Similarly, thermal generation went down by 800MW due to a squeeze on oil supplies and it generated 2,100MW against a summer supply of 2,900MW.
The authority faced a shortage of 600MW because power lines from HubCo were blown up on Tuesday. The PepCo supplied power to Karachi through alternative routes and reduced the supply of 300MW to the national grid in the morning.
Stoppage of gas supplies to different generating units worsened the deficit by another 500MW.
The company cannot shut power to hospitals, military installations and railway stations. This additional load is transferred to the general public. The same situation happened on Wednesday, taking the loadshedding beyond eight hours in most areas of the country.
“The load situation further worsens when taken against the backdrop of a constant load of around 1,500MW, which the company cannot shut off,”
- An official of Power Wing of the Water and Power Development Authority.
The performance of the Independent Power Producers (IPPs) were supposed to meet peak hours (6pm to 10pm) requirements but maintaining a constant supply in such a crisis situation had proved to be beyond them. Their contribution had never gone beyond 5,000MW against the installed capacity of 5,500MW.
A HubCo unit is out of order and is creating a constant deficit of 300MW.
I would like to addres that elecriccity problem can be solved by making two holidays in a weak and using energy sever insted of bulbs.Every Pakistani should face this danger gently.
I would say electricity problem can be solved by applying energy conservation techniques, but creating awareness that people should not waste energy .
By making efforts in reducing electricity theft and mis use, this could be done if we could privatize the energy sector in a way that from substation to consumer they should award the responsibility to private companies who have assigned certain load which they can monitor that wether it is delivering properly or not. use lux sensors for street lights and energysavers in common use.
its all over politices no body fell a common people face problums
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just i say one thing All wapda employe pay bill properly when it use