Load shedding returned to the city on Saturday after three days of Eid and citizens witnessed six to eight hours of outages.
In some areas, electricity was suspended due to transmission problems and people had to face continuous closures of electricity for three to four hours. Neither demand for electricity increased nor there was extra burden on the system but still electricity was closed with repeated intervals. A number of areas in Defence and Cantt faced outages of four hours on Friday night. Offices, banks, business centres, industries and educational institutions remained closed because of Eid holidays and at least there should have been a 25 percent decrease in power consumption but even then there was no respite from load shedding.
A majority parts of the country received rains and demand of power reduced sharply. According to the Pakistan Electric Power Company (PEPCO), power demand on Thursday remained 14,236MW and generation 12,143MW resulting in a shortfall of 2,093MW. On Friday, power demand remained 15,674MW and generation 12,735MW resulting in a shortfall of 2,939MW. Consumers said that they should be given relief until Sunday, as power demand has not increased and there was no point in starting load shedding. “The industrial sector and business centres are closed until Sunday and there is no surge in power demand,” consumer Imdad Hussain said adding that power was closed for one hour after four hours.
Consumers slammed technical closures by the Lahore Electric Supply Company (LESCO). “Our power was closed at 11pm and restored at 3am,” housewife Atiya Khan at Cantt said.Lahore
Staff Report
Load shedding returned to the city on Saturday after three days of Eid and citizens witnessed six to eight hours of outages.
In some areas, electricity was suspended due to transmission problems and people had to face continuous closures of electricity for three to four hours. Neither demand for electricity increased nor there was extra burden on the system but still electricity was closed with repeated intervals. A number of areas in Defence and Cantt faced outages of four hours on Friday night. Offices, banks, business centres, industries and educational institutions remained closed because of Eid holidays and at least there should have been a 25 percent decrease in power consumption but even then there was no respite from load shedding.
A majority parts of the country received rains and demand of power reduced sharply. According to the Pakistan Electric Power Company (PEPCO), power demand on Thursday remained 14,236MW and generation 12,143MW resulting in a shortfall of 2,093MW. On Friday, power demand remained 15,674MW and generation 12,735MW resulting in a shortfall of 2,939MW. Consumers said that they should be given relief until Sunday, as power demand has not increased and there was no point in starting load shedding. “The industrial sector and business centres are closed until Sunday and there is no surge in power demand,” consumer Imdad Hussain said adding that power was closed for one hour after four hours.
Consumers slammed technical closures by the Lahore Electric Supply Company (LESCO). “Our power was closed at 11pm and restored at 3am,” housewife Atiya Khan at Cantt said.
