Loadshedding increased to six hours

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ISLAMABAD: The government on Thursday conceded increased and unscheduled loadshedding across the country over the last couple of days and apologised for the inconvenience caused to the consumers.

Without disclosing the quantum of electricity shortfall, the Ministry of Water and Power announced that it had increased loadshedding by one hour for urban and two hours for rural areas with immediate effect. As a result, the consumers in urban areas would have to bear with four-hour power outage compared with six-hours in rural areas, the ministry said.

“The ministry regrets the inconvenience caused to the consumers,” said a statement issued by the Ministry of Water and Power. It said the unannounced loadshedding was caused by sudden increase in temperatures and unprecedented fall in reservoir levels that severely reduced power generation from hydro resources. It said the hydropower generation had average 2,560 megawatts in the month of March last year but this declined significantly this year. It had declined as low as 1,620MW on March 27 and 1,410MW on March 28.

“The increase in temperatures throughout the country and the sudden surge in demand created a deficit which could not be met by the reduced loadshedding of three hours for urban and four hours for rural areas with zero power outage for industries and higher loadshedding on low recovery and high theft feeders”. This resulted in unscheduled loadshedding on March 27 and 28 causing inconvenience to the consumers.

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The ministry said the government had decided to increase loadshedding period since it would take a few days for the dams to fill up and hydel generation to increase. The loadshedding schedule for urban and rural feeders has been increased by one and two hours respectively. The schedule of four-hour loadshedding in urban and six-hour in rural areas will be lower as compared to last year by two hours, which was six-hour urban and eight-hour rural but will be slightly higher than the previous five months of reduced loadshedding.

The ministry claimed the decision has stabilised the power flows and reduced the chances of unscheduled or higher loadshedding in most of the areas except low recoveries and high theft areas.

Published in Dawn, March 31st, 2017


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I'm.... What happened Sharif ... y r we heading in the opposite direction promised?

 

[saiyan0321]

Hah... Its greater. Yesterday and last night was horrific and the showbaz was screaming that he would sell electricity to modi. That guy was right. What kind sasta nasha do these two bit leaders do but hey can't complain otherwise the cyber crime team will grab you.

 

[ziaulislam]

Hah... Its greater. Yesterday and last night was horrific and the showbaz was screaming that he would sell electricity to modi. That guy was right. What kind sasta nasha do these two bit leaders do but hey can't complain otherwise the cyber crime team will grab you.

well PML n didnt do any planning before the election, after election they came up with gaddani project, poor envisioned given focusing all production in one area wihout palnning power evacaution, than they decided to do coal after wasting two years which was right decision but later decided to do LNG under urgent basis

from the beginning the govt should have been hones"this problem will take at least 4 years" and opted for multi prong approach
1. coal short term evenly distributed (govt ultimately took this route but late)
2. LNG by converting current plants from desel /furnace to LNG
3. small hydro projects recommended by SHYDO which had a completion time of 3-4 years but PTI /PML N politics closed this door (PPPP did that to some extent and yielded positive results and added 300-400 MW in quick time)
4. open bidding for LNG new plants to cover the deficiency
govt did that but later bids were scrapped as it was initiated in late 2016 and investors told them that they can not be completed by 2018 time frame as

 

[Kabira]

Not even single CPEC power plant is running. Don't expect improvement before mid 2018.

 

[third eye]

Yesterday and last night was horrific and the showbaz was screaming that he would sell electricity to modi.

This is the first thought that came to mind when I read the title of this thread.

 

[Lahorie]

The Load-shedding has already reached 8 hours in Lahore and April is yet to come. If the hollow claims could eradicate the electricity shortage, there would haven't any load-shedding to begin with. Soon the politicians will start promising that they shall eliminate load-shedding until 2023.

As long as politicians & bureaucracy have dedicated & interruption-free power lines to their homes, the electricity shortage cannot end.

Meanwhile ....

 

[MULUBJA]

The quickest and cheapest solution for pakistan to get ride of electricity crisis is to go for solar power plant. Recently India did an agreement of electricity at a rate of Rs 2.97 only. If pakistan can go for such agreement at somewhere around 5 pnr and get a 3000 to 4000 MW plant ready in an year of time and simultaneously take action to reduce electricity consumption, Pakistan's situation of electricity crisis will normalize. What pakistn need to do is to invest more in basic things such as agriculture, electricity, Water conservation and education. Only this can better the Pakistan.

 

[Mr.Nair]

Not even single CPEC power plant is running. Don't expect improvement before mid 2018.

India had an installed capacity of 3,15,042 MW as of 28 February 2017 and is the 3rd largest in the world after US,China.Even at this capacity still we have to connect some of parts.Pakistan is at around 25,000 MW and India added more than 30,000 MW in a year from 2015-2016, which is more than total installed capacity of pakistan.

Pakistan government should seriously implement better production level rather than on talks....

@fitpOsitive @IceCold @Moonlight @Arsalan @Penguin @Sully3 @tarrar @ali_raza @Zarvan @yavar @SajjLad @Hamadan @T-123456 @storm_eagle @GlobalVillageSpace @hassan1

 

[Roybot]

Shahbaz Sharif ne saari bijli Modi ko bech di

 

[Mr.Nair]

The problem in pakistan is that they hardly concentrated on Wind power or bothered to construct more major dams for its energy and irrigation needs.Neither they bothered to create big corporates like Suzlon(Indian company) with installed capacity over 25000 MW of wind power capacity in 31 countries, or companies like Adani.India also have 5,202 large dams,when pakistan hardly have 150 dams.

I can tell lost priorities by many rulers in pakistan for many decades which create this situation....

@jermankill @Talwar e Pakistan @Salman Zahidi @AZADPAKISTAN2009 @Cthulhu @Draco.IMF @TopCat @fatman17 @Areesh @Jungibaaz @Taygibay @Syed.Ali.Haider @Devil Soul

 

[Talwar e Pakistan]

The problem in pakistan is that they hardly concentrated on Wind power or bothered to construct more major dams for its energy and irrigation needs.Neither they bothered to create big corporates like Suzlon(Indian company) with installed capacity over 25000 MW of wind power capacity in 31 countries, or companies like Adani.India also have 5,202 large dams,when pakistan hardly have 150 dams.

I can tell lost priorities by many rulers in pakistan for many decades which create this situation....

@jermankill @Talwar e Pakistan @Salman Zahidi @AZADPAKISTAN2009 @Cthulhu @Draco.IMF @TopCat @fatman17 @Areesh @Jungibaaz @Taygibay @Syed.Ali.Haider @Devil Soul

Under CPEC, billions are being invested into renewable energy. Pakistan, percentage wise - uses more renewable energy than India. Also we have WAY more than 150 dams. You got that number from all dams that are over 49 foot tall.

 

[RIP Pak LAW]

The problem in pakistan is that they hardly concentrated on Wind power or bothered to construct more major dams for its energy and irrigation needs.Neither they bothered to create big corporates like Suzlon(Indian company) with installed capacity over 25000 MW of wind power capacity in 31 countries, or companies like Adani.India also have 5,202 large dams,when pakistan hardly have 150 dams.

I can tell lost priorities by many rulers in pakistan for many decades which create this situation....

@jermankill @Talwar e Pakistan @Salman Zahidi @AZADPAKISTAN2009 @Cthulhu @Draco.IMF @TopCat @fatman17 @Areesh @Jungibaaz @Taygibay @Syed.Ali.Haider @Devil Soul

Not sure about about the wind power for a nation of 20 millions but surely we should had atleast 2 big water dams like Tarbella by now. KalaBagh dam was a political mess while we are wasting time in the construction of Bhasha Dam. Bhasha Dam construction was inaugurated by Musharaf in 2006 but nothing much has been done by the post Musharaf Govts other than big talk.

 

[Mr.Nair]

Under CPEC, billions are being invested into renewable energy. Pakistan, percentage wise - uses more renewable energy than India. Also we have WAY more than 150 dams. You got that number from all dams that are over 49 foot tall.

Buddy a state like gujarat produce more electricity and renewable energy than pakistan.

India has 5,202 large dams. According to the Central Water Commission (CWC), a large dam is one with height of at least 15m from its deepest foundation to the crest.

http://www.livemint.com/Politics/J5HAuWKfAUFVX5UyMWFtYN/How-many-dams-does-India-need.html

This is the pakistani media and pakistani experts about India and Pakistan dams.Even this expert are telling that pakistan only have 2 dams(Major) !

 

[fatman17]

Under CPEC, billions are being invested into renewable energy. Pakistan, percentage wise - uses more renewable energy than India. Also we have WAY more than 150 dams. You got that number from all dams that are over 49 foot tall.

Benefits of cpec will be post 2018. Until then enjoy the loadshedding.

 

[Super Falcon]

Yet ganja every year says load shedding is over what kind of stupid system we are living in no body has balls to slap staright on these basterds face when they lie they think we are that level of stupid