LAHORE: Due to the onset of winter, gas consumption by the domestic sector has raised manifold and resulted in an ever widening gap between demand and supply. In order to ensure continuous gas supply to domestic consumers, SNGPL has undertaken the implementation of load management in industrial sector where contractually, SNGPL is obliged to restrict supply from 1st December to 28th February.
Despite the aforementioned conditions, SNGPL claims that it is accommodating the industrial sector by curtailing supply to this sector for only two days in a week. This may increase to three days a week depending upon the weather conditions in Punjab and Khyber Pakhtoonkhawa. It points out that concerted efforts are made to supply gas to the industrial units throughout the year.
