Thəorətic Muslim;4313462 said:I was hoping for bullet points of how "Sharif" saab would take on Load Shedding. But the only "news" was he chaired a meeting on the Energy Crisis.
The "Sharif" Saabs have been saying that since Zardari became President. We will end Load shedding in Punjab in months, what happened?
It takes months to make a solar/ wind/ coal plant and that is IF the entire plant has been manufactured and already in the country. It takes years to make a dam.
So the only solution is Rental Power. And all Rental Power comes from burning Oil. So Oil powered electricity power plants? Come on yaar.
Pakistan needs leaders who are educated in Pakistan, because only then do they know what the true aliments are afflicting their country. Not these people who lived their entire lives overseas and "educated" in Oxford/ Cambridge or LSE.
No I wasn't talking about Nawaz Sharif's or Shabaz Sharif's promises, I'm thinking about the various projects that were started by the previous government that are scheduled to go live in the second half of this year.
To give you an example, by the end of this year around 900 megawatts of electricity will be added to the national grid which will be generated by various US projects in the country... and that's just the US projects. Plus, there are many other projects that are scheduled to see fruition in the second half of this year.
No matter how badly Pakistan was governed by the previous Goverment, more than 4,000 megawatts of electricity was added to the national grid in the last 5 years. Total installed capacity now stands at over 23,000 megawatts (23 gigawatts) in Pakistan.
Now, even if this doubles in the next 5 years, this is not going to be enough for Pakistan.
Take Germany for example, they have around 230 Giggawatts of installed capacity. As Pakistan is around two-and-half-times more populous than Germany, Pakistan's installed capacity needs to be at least two-and-half-times more. Lets say a minimum of 50 gigawatts or 500,000 megawatts are required for people to be finally happy.
It's a mammoth task and there are no quick solutions to this, so don't expect load shedding to disapear before 2030 regardless who's in power.