Tag: Outages

LAHORE - Unscheduled load shedding made a striking comeback on Thursday, as the city faced 12 hours of outages while rural areas witnessed blackouts of 16 hours, Pakistan Today has learnt. The power shortfall crossed 3,500MW irking citizens. Almost all city areas faced one hour closure after every one hour making routine life miserable.
In many areas, electricity was closed under the garb of technical repairs and was restored in the afternoon. Citizens said that sudden closures

FAISALABAD - More than 400 industrial units were closed, rendering thousands of daily wagers jobless due to three-day Sui gas closure in Faisalabad.
A spokesman of the industrialists told journalists on Thursday that the Sui Northern Gas Pipelines Limited (SNGPL) had issued a three-day gas load management schedule for the industrial sector of Faisalabad.
He added that under this schedule, gas supply to the industrial units was suspended from the morning of April 6 till

LAHORE - With the summer season intensifying, the demand and supply gap has widened; thereby increasing load shedding in the city to 10 years on Tuesday. Some of the areas experienced outages for up to six hours due to technical repairs, while the majority of the city faced five-hour outages.
The outskirts of the city were lesser fortunate, facing up to 10-hour electricity closures. Some citizens were critical of load-shedding during peak working hours. Saeeda Khalid a resident

LAHORE - The summer has not set in but once again PEPCO has failed to provide relief to the consumers and on Monday announced 6 to 12 hours of power cuts in urban and rural areas of the country.
Giving excuse of closure of gas by the SNGPL to PEPCO's five power plants, DG PEPCO Muhammad Khaild made the announcement. Talking to Pakistan Today, he said 5 power plants including Rocsh, Fauji Kabeerwala, Saif, Saphire and Orient have to be shut down, as Sui Northern Gas Pipelines

ISLAMABAD - The National Assembly Standing Committee on Water and Power was told in a meeting chaired by Syed Ghulam Mustafa Shah here on Monday that there would be no respite from grueling power outages during the hot summer months and people in urban areas would have to bear daily outages of at least 4 to 6 hours, while those in rural areas would be subjected to 6 to 8 hours of no power from April to September.
National Assembly members attending the meeting were not

KASUR - Hundreds of people took out a rally against unscheduled load shedding in Kasur and reduced millions of rupees vans, motorcycles and other valuables to ashes. Reportedly, a rally of power loom workers and local residents that started from Kot Murad Khan, reached the WAPDA office where other angry people also joined it. The protesters chanted slogans against the WAPDA and said their business had been closed due to the load shedding, due to which, they were unable to feed their

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan Electric Power Company (PEPCO) Managing Director Rasul Khan Mahsud has said that electricity load-shedding could end in a day if full supply of furnace oil and gas was ensured.
Briefing the National Assembly Standing Committee on Water and Power on Friday, he said PEPCO had a daily furnace oil requirement of 27,000 tons, while Pakistan State Oil managed to provide only 18,000 tons every day. He said PEPCO's total gas requirements were of 780mmcfd but it

LAHORE - Contrary to the Pakistan Electric Power Company (PEPCO)'s claims regarding a reduction in load shedding, the city witnessed even greater power closures on Thursday. A couple of days ago, PEPCO officials assured the electricity consumers of a 'better summer' but the situation is entirely different. The power shortfall in the recent days has increased sharply owing to an increase in electricity demand while electricity production remained stagnant.PEPCO Director General

KARACHI - The Karachi Electric Supply Company (KESC) has begun subjecting the industrial sector to four hours of power breakdowns from Friday, on the premise of shortage of gas and subsequent low supply of electricity. The measure comes soon after citizens began witnessing a three to four hours increase in scheduled loadshedding in various areas.
Despite the closure of many markets, government and private offices, and educational institutions due to the strike in the city,

LAHORE - Load-shedding will increase in the coming days as power demand is increasing because of the rising mercury, however, power generation is stagnant and there is little likehood it would increase before March 15, sources told Pakistan Today on Wednesday. Currently, the Pakistan Electric Power Company (PEPCO) is carrying out four-hour load shedding in urban areas and 10-hour load-shedding in rural areas. The demand is roaming around 11,700MW while production stands at 10,300MW

LAHORE - The shortage of gas supply to certain power plants is the main reason behind an increase in the power shortfall, Pakistan Electric Power Company (PEPCO) Director General (DG) Muhammad Khalid said on Tuesday. He was speaking at a weekly press conference at the WAPDA House. The PEPCO DG said that the company was facing a shortfall of 1,423MW, as production stood at 10,263MW and demand 11,686MW. Khalid said that hydel power plants were producing 3,973MW, thermal 1,577MW,

LAHORE - Low gas pressure continued to irk consumers in the city on Friday. Annoyed by the continuing gas crisis, Gawalmandi residents staged a protest against the Sui Northern Gas Pipelines Company Limited (SNGPL) in front of Lahore Press Club yesterday.
Protesters, holding placards, chanted slogans against SNGPL management. They blocked the road for sometime which resulted in a traffic jam. Irate gas consumers said they were facing problems in cooking food owing to low gas

ISLAMABAD - Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani on Thursday announced that gas load shedding would end by the mid of March, adding that 1,100 megawatts (MW) of electricity were in the pipeline which would be inducted in the main system in the near future.
Talking to a delegation of the Federation of the Pakistan Chamber of Commerce and Industry (FPCCI), the prime minister said the government had already inducted more than 1,700 megawatts of additional electricity since coming into

LAHORE - The Pakistan Electric Power Company (PEPCO) on Tuesday announced to start two to 10 hours of load shedding due to an increase in shortfall. This was announced by PEPCO Director General (DG) Muhammad Khalid at a press briefing.
He said that urban areas covered by the Lahore Electric Supply Company (LESCO) would face two hours and rural areas five hours of closure. The Gujranwala Electric Power Company's (GEPCO) urban areas would face seven hours and rural areas nine hours

LAHORE - Power outages have increased to four to seven hours, as electricity shortfall widened and crossed the 1,400MW mark on Saturday. Hydel, thermal and other power generation sources decreased rapidly in the last three days, as the Pakistan Electric Power Company (PEPCO) failed to control the situation.
All power production sources touched their lowest ebb in recent days. Looking at the shortfall, PEPCO has also decreased supplies to the Karachi Electric Supply Company (KESC)

LAHORE - Load-shedding of four to six hours returned on Sunday, as power production decreased due to certain reasons. Despite being a holiday and all offices and shopping centres closed, people continued to suffer from continuous power outages, which added to their miseries. The situation has taken aback consumers who were not ready for a sudden increase in load shedding.
With the wedding season going on in full swing and functions of Rabiul Awal reaching their peak, power

DASKA - PML-N MNA Khawaja Muhammad Asif said on Friday the industrial sector of the Punjab was confronting multiple problems due to unavailability of gas and electricity.
He alleged the federal government was intentionally imposing the crisis of electricity on Punjab whereas 700megawatts electricity was being supplied to Karachi at Rs 3 per unit. Asif said the government was 'inventing' new modes of corruption but PML-N would close all doors of corruption and malpractices with