Tag: load shedding

Punjab Education Minister Rana Mashhood Ahmed Khan has said that the government is committed to resolve energy crisis. All sources including traditional and alternate...

Local industrialists in a meeting at Islamabad Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ICCI) strongly protested against the return of massive load shedding, which has...

In light of increased electricity outages, enraged protesters on Wednesday entered the grid station on Dala Zaak Road in Peshawar and cut off the electricity supply to several areas.

Chairing the 10th meeting of Cabinet Committee on Energy at the Prime Minister’s House Tuesday afternoon, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said that more electricity will soon be available in the system and directed that load shedding in summers should not be more than six hours in urban areas and no more than eight hours in rural areas in summer.

A spokesperson for National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (NEPRA) has contradicted the news items which appeared in a section of press on February 24, enunciating continuance of power outages across the country by 2020.

Talking to Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif at his Jati Umra residence on Sunday, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has said that the PML-N government...

In order to facilitate the production growth, Islamabad Electricity Supply Company (IESCO) has reduced the duration of electricity load shedding for the industrial sector...

Govt carries out unannounced load shedding – 12 to 14 hours in urban areas and 16 to 20 hours in rural areas, as power...

Year 2017 will be the year of saying goodbye to power load shedding said Federal Minister for Water and Power and Defence Khawaja Asif. The...

*Govt announces three Eid holidays, no CNG, electricity load shedding from Oct 6 to Oct 8  The Federal Government has announced three public holidays for...

Ahmad was a cobbler and lived in a rented house in Mohallah Usman Ghani in Faisalabad

Citizens take to the roads in Lahore, Multan, DI Khan against prolonged and unscheduled electricity load shedding as electricity shortfall peaks at 7,000MW As the...

The protesters are suffering from 16 hours of load shedding on a daily basis

KP CM, PTI workers protest at PESCO office, threaten Centre they will cut off electricity supply to Punjab Federal minister assures resolution of power-related problems...

One should not forget that the government had just cleared the entire circular debt a year before July and there were no system constraints. Every machine was running to its capacity. Now the circular debt has reared its head. Fuel supplies have been squeezed; the sector is getting around 22,000 tons furnace oil against total the demand of around 36,000 tons. So, the situation is bound to worsen.

UPS prices range between Rs 7,000 and Rs 25,000, depending on capacity of the unit       The demand for Uninterrupted Power Supply (UPS) units and generators...

Despite the government’s claims to bring an end to load shedding from the whole country, power outages from 3 to 9 hours still continue...