Tag: Electricity

The Punjab Assembly on Thursday adopted the Punjab Power Development Board Bill 2010 (PPDB) unanimously to break the province’s dependency on federal electricity. The...

Google on Thursday took the unprecedented step of talking about how much electricity it takes to power YouTube, Gmail, Google search and other services...

The power transformers installed at the Environment Directorate of the Capital Development Authority Directorate has been out of order for more than a week....

Power shortfall has been reduced to 2445 megawatt all over the country and load shedding is being observed for 7 hours in urban areas...

United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has launched Tube-well Efficiency Improvement Programme (TWEIP) that can save about 1000 MW electricity in Pakistan. USAID...

Water and Power Minister Naveed Qamar, contradicting any victimisation of the province, on Tuesday said Punjab was being provided with more electricity than any...

The WAPDA authorities again earned a ‘good name’ with remaining firm to its rich tradition of ensuring hours long load-shedding and particularly halted power...

The Pakistan Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (PCSIR) on Thursday demonstrated the production of electricity from coal at Thar which may help overcome...

LESCO College Road sub-division caught electricity theft in its area and registered a case against Ateeq-ur-Rehman and Lateef-ur-Rehman in Green Town police station for...

Minister for Religious Affairs Syed Khursheed Shah has said that the government had initiated work on various projects to generate 20,000MW of electricity. Addressing participants...

A spokesman of Pakistan Water and Power Development Authority (WAPDA) has rejected a statement “Power outages to continue till 2018”, attributed to WAPDA Chairman...

The Lahore Electric Supply Company (LESCO) disconnected the National College of Arts (NCA)’s electricity supply for non-payment of dues, which have amounted to Rs...

Karachi police have managed to regain control of the Clifton grid station from militants who had earlier stormed the station and shut down as...

Iran has asked Pakistan to increase the rate of electricity, which Pakistan is importing from her. Sources in the Ministry of Water and Power said...

Lahore High Court (LHC) Chief Justice (CJ) Ijaz Ahmed Chaudhry on Tuesday, taking serious notice of electricity misuse in courtrooms, offices and various branches...

Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) Pakistan Naib Amir Senator Professor Khurshid Ahmad, on Thursday, strongly condemned the government’s decision of another rise in electricity and gas tariff. ...

The total generation capacity of the Tarbela Hydropower Station would raise to 4828 MW after the installation of 1350 MW units as a part...